From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:49:19 +0800
To: Lucky Green <rpandya@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Private Information Retrieval
Message-ID: <199609250458.VAA20863@netcom8.netcom.com>
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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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