From: jim@bilbo.suite.com (Jim Miller)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 22:30:44 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: anonymous "video on demand"
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Does anyone know of a good, practical way of doing "video on demand" in  
such a way that the video supplier can't track the videos you select?

I suppose the trivial solution would be to send your video selection  
request (and service fee) through a "anonymous video remailer".  The video  
supplier would send the encrypted video back to you via the remailer.

Since I don't see "anonymous video remailers" as being a practical  
solution in the near future, I'm more interested in finding out if there  
are other ways of solving this problem.

This sounds like an All-Or-Nothing Disclosure Of Secrets problem.   
However, all I know about ANDOS is what I read in "Applied Cryptography",  
and the algorithm it describes doesn't seem a good fit.

Are there other ANDOS algorithms that may work better?

Jim_Miller@suite.com