Translucent and Private

Simson Garfinkel has more to say on the Yale-Princeton database-hacking controversy than the usual chuckles, head-wags and tongue-clucks it provokes — specifically, its implications for database design. “To provide even better security, Yale and Princeton could have used what’s called a translucent database, a term coined by author and cryptographer Peter Wayner in his new book by the same title.”