1994-01-01 - Re: Anonymous Video on Demand
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
Message Hash: 8f40a26c0dbbb5f844c85a5283884e09a65bb9a21289335d5e95f2a28b2ea80f
Message ID: <199401011716.MAA28882@snark>
Reply To: <9312312259.AA25911@bilbo.suite.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-01-01 17:19:02 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 1 Jan 94 09:19:02 PST
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 94 09:19:02 PST
To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
Subject: Re: Anonymous Video on Demand
In-Reply-To: <9312312259.AA25911@bilbo.suite.com>
Message-ID: <199401011716.MAA28882@snark>
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Jim Miller says:
> The Customer and the Video Provider engage in a protocol so that the
> Customer ends up receiving 100 compressed and encrypted videos, only one
> of which the Customer can successfully decrypt (and uncompress).
Can't work. As a mental proof of this, consider -- if such an
algorithm did exist, the customer could record the 100 inputs and feed
them to the algorithm 100 times, thus getting all 100 videos.
Perry
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