Advancing metadata-private technologies
The Private Retrieval Cell supports research & development of private communication systems.
The options available today for interactive (low latency) communication with privacy guarantees are very limited. Solutions developed to date have focused on the traditional web model of a single trusted origin publisher for data (as opposed to content-addressed systems where data may be replicated in advance), and have drawbacks both in their incurred latency and threat model.
This organization is structured to explore and develop viable mechanisms for reader-private communications under the hypothesis that it is possible to design scalable systems that don't sacrifice latency for privacy.
A full description of the thesis can be found here.
The Cell is supported by Protocol Labs and others.
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Applications are currently: Open for round 2. This round will close May 1st, 2024.
Submit a proposal by creating a new issue in this repository using the provided issue template. The details of your proposal may be sent privately by email to fund at anonymity.dev, but an issue must be created in this repository to initiate the review process.
We will respond to the issue to help ensure a complete application. We may also ask for clarifications and/or modifications. Once the application is complete, it will be submitted to our advisory board for review.
The private retrieval cell is housed within Open Impact Foundation, supporting digital public goods by acting as a fiscal sponsor, providing both charitable status and legal separation for directed donation-based capital pools.
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