Anonymous Video on Demand

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at lehman.com
Sat Jan 1 09:19:02 PST 1994



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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