Sure, the original impetus for this was some discussion on the SimplySecure Slack of having a protocol which did not require any direct interactions between Alice and Bob for doing a private set intersection for contacts, mediated through a third party (the directory)<span></span><br><br>On Monday, February 29, 2016, Joseph Bonneau <<a href="mailto:jbonneau@gmail.com">jbonneau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Tony Arcieri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bascule@gmail.com');" target="_blank">bascule@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Monday, February 29, 2016, Joseph Bonneau <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jbonneau@gmail.com');" target="_blank">jbonneau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm not sure exactly what the goal is here. Is it for Alice and Bob to find out which contacts they have in common without each revealing the whole set?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Yes. Moxie did a great job of spelling out the problem and various non-solutions here: </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><span></span> <a href="https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/" target="_blank">https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That post describe the problem of Alice and Bob trying to find out if they're both using the same service. I asked if the goal is for Alice and Bob to find out which contacts they have in common without each revealing the whole set, which is a quite different proposition. It sounds from your original message like you were asking about this, since you mentioned "<span style="font-size:12.8px">Bob is authorized in the directory to view Alice's contacts"</span><br></div></div><br></div></div>
</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br><br>