NODE 652663dcRe: Private Information Retrieval
frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:49:19 +0800
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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