paragonie/ciphersweet

Managing Coincidences

mcordingley opened this issue · 2 comments

mcordingley commented

Suppose we are executing a query using a blind index and a query against the index returns multiple possible hits. How do we differentiate true positives from false positives? Decrypt and compare raw values?

paragonie-scott commented

How do we differentiate true positives from false positives? Decrypt and compare raw values?

Yes. The blind index is meant to turn "decrypt and manually compare billions of rows" into "decrypt and manually compare dozens of rows".

mcordingley commented

OK. Wanted to make sure this was intended. Thanks.