At a "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy" '94 informal meeting, I heard a quick overview of a video-on-demand protocol that would ensure privacy. Does anyone know the details? Here is what I recall (I think): Three parties: A - the information provider has a list of movies (or other material) with prices B - a middleman/net owner C - a customer Some how, C gets her movie, A gets the money, and A doesn't know who her customer was, and B doesn't know which movie C is seeing. Details anyone? - Carl ANNOTATED REFERENCES (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.) =================<a href="ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/CAF/library/confidentiality.2.ala"> library/confidentiality.2.ala =================</a> * Confidentiality -- 2 (ALA) The American Library Association's "Statement Concerning Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information about Library Users" ================= ================= If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command gopher gopher.eff.org These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp to ftp.eff.org (192.77.172.4), and then: cd /pub/CAF/library get confidentiality.2.ala To get the file(s) by email, send email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Include the line(s): connect ftp.eff.org cd /pub/CAF/library get confidentiality.2.ala -- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me. =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =