Aren't similar methods too much resource intensive from Wikidata's perspective?
Vito Il giorno sab 29 gen 2022 alle ore 13:44 Darius Runge < [email protected]> ha scritto: > Dear all, > > I started using WikiData for Private Information Retrieval. This allows > answering certain questions while maintaining a high degree of secrecy. > Suppose you wanted to know when Einstein was born, but for some reason you > must keep the fact that you want to know this a secret. In this case, we > assume a threat model with perfect knowledge about the computer in use, not > just that someone managed to log the Wikidata requests. > > One solution would be to request a table of every human who ever won the > Nobel Prize (this requires the common knowledge of Einstein being a winner > of said) with the kind of Nobel Prize, date awarded, date of birth, date of > death unless living, nationality etc. If we let this table scroll across > the screen and read the required entry, there would be - as far as I can > tell - no way to learn which entry (and how many of them) is of our > interest. > > I have written a simple PHP script that allows one to enter a SPARQL > request and have it displayed as a scrolling table. Please be advised that > this is in a very informal alpha state, and I am no professional Web > Developer. It's a mere proof-of-concept, but feel free to try it out if the > API quota lets you. > > https://darius-runge.eu/otp/request.php > > My question is, whether anyone of you might be interested in working with > me on discussing practical implications of this method (how should requests > be written to allow for the desired privacy?) or even making a better > implementation of a tool that allows viewing the scrolling table of > printing it out. > > Feel free to reply to this mailing list entry or contact me privately with > the postal or telecommunication data provided in the footer in case you > don't want to discuss it in public. > > Best, > Darius > > ---------------------------------------- > Darius Runge > Postfach 3 > 72669 Unterensingen > Germany > > Tel +49 7022 5064970 > Fax +49 7022 5064971 > Vox +49 7022 5064998 (2 min) > > All up-to-date contact data: > https://darius-runge.eu_______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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