Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

NounsAndWords,

Just in time for all the searchable information to be completely drowned out by low quality AI content.

SendMePhotos,

This is my nightmare

wahming,

It’s already drowned out by low quality SEO spam, so no difference

GarytheSnail,
@GarytheSnail@programming.dev avatar

Thank God I did all my searching before this happened.

iAvicenna,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

did you also make hard copies of everything you found?

GarytheSnail,
@GarytheSnail@programming.dev avatar

Dang it! No! brb

danhab99,
@danhab99@programming.dev avatar

Most Linux package managers sync the list of all packages they can download. I wonder if some sort of system like that can be used to federate web searching.

emptiestplace,

So we all just have a copy of the internet and then we can grep for things we are interested in … I’m actually not super against this.

Chais,
@Chais@sh.itjust.works avatar

The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.

xilliah,

Well perhaps a selection? You don’t need the data set for crotcheting or perl coding if that’s not up your alley.

Strykker,

Once you do that though you end up telling people what you are interested in which goes against the whole purpose in the first place.

xilliah,

Ah ok so we’re talking perfect safety here

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