[66395] in Cypherpunks
Re: Private Information Retrieval
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Sep 25 01:15:22 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:01:19 -0700
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>, Ravi Pandya <rpandya@netcom.com>
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 8:54 PM 9/24/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Ravi Pandya wrote:
>
>> ABSTRACT:
>>
>> Publicly accessible databases are an indispensable resource for retrieving
>> up to date information. But they also pose a significant risk to the
>> privacy of the user, since a curious database operator can follow the user's
>> queries and infer what the user is after.
>
>Hmm. Sounds like job for KeyKOS :-)
Yup. That was the original problem KeyKOS nee Gnosis was designed to solve.
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