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Comment by abentspoon

First, it looks like this scheme is broken due to cpu constraints. However...

It had looked more like the encrypted bloom filter was intended to prevent the client from obtaining the list of registered users.

With (1) + (2), the server only has a few bits of information about each of the phone's contacts. It would be analogous to just having the area codes.

parent abentspoon 13 years ago

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