Gilles Tran wrote:
> I'm not sure that would change anything. Either the site can point to 
> torrents in a usable way (providing content descriptions, rating etc.) 
> or it can't.

It doesn't have to provide content descriptions to make them usable, is my 
point.   You can have a search engine search content without knowing what 
that content is or what you're searching for.  That's what the bloom filters 
give you.

The way I was originally doing it was to double-hash the keywords, then send 
the single-hash of the keywords around the network, having each client with 
content hash it once more, then compare the results. (The double-hash was so 
people storing stuff locally wouldn't be able to look at the search requests 
and fake a "yes" answer, basically, or something like that. I'm not sure I 
remember the details.) The problem with this is you have to actually spell 
the keyword exactly right, which is kind of messy for full text searches.

> BTW, there's an idea floating around, that consists in encrypting 
> content without giving the key,

I saw that program. The start of the documentation made no sense until you 
got down to the rationale.

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