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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by benchaney on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:54PM (#16234010)
> But suppose we could construct a truly limited mechanism that would give them the ability to recover only a small amount of encrypted data.

Do you believe that this is actually possible? How? I ask because this being doable is crux of your argument, and every proposal I have seen falls laughably short.

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Re:Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who ... by cvwright on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:20PM (#16234777)
If you had asked me if single-server private information retrieval was possible, I'd have said no until I read papers on single-server PIR.

If you had asked me if oblivious RAM were possible, I'd have said no until I read papers on ORAM.

I think we could do a lot more than we are now.

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