[mnet-devel] open issues in record keeper, part 2: encryption

[Zooko]

I'm not sure why records should be encrypted.  (Perhaps this is a dumb 
question.)

If all it takes to decrypt a record is to guess any one of the keywords under 
which the record is indexed, then that's pretty weak encryption.  In fact, the 
two uses of the keyword -- indexing and encryption -- are sort of in tension 
with one another.  You want many keywords, and easily guess keywords, for 
indexing, so that people can find it, but you want few, and impossible to 
guess, for encryption.

I guess I don't know exactly what the desiderata are for privacy here.  
Whatever they turn out to be, they ought to be included in the design doc!

--Z



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