Private Information Retrieval

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Tue Sep 24 23:03:20 PDT 1996





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 :-)

--Lucky






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