This could be framed as an interesting crypto/information hiding problem.
Yeah. This and all subparts: my interest in you could be disclosed only if you are also interested in me, my queerness could be disclosed only if you are not Fred Phelps, etc.
It's probably possible to solve this using Realy Clever Mathematics, but it's a lot easier with trusted hardware.
Ain't that the truth! :-)
So when someone sees someone which interests them, they excuse themselves...
I saw a writeup somewhere that went "When I'm interested I get near the other person (near that person's device, more accurately) and push a button. If they've pushed theirs too, my device lights up or buzzes or something." Keeps a lot less data, though, so you still have to figure out the poly thing and somehow determine exactly *which* button-push lit up your life.
and only if the other person also subsequently indicates an interest do both people simultaneously get notified on their cell phone, via an SMS message, that there is a match.
And a generation later, anyone hearing that SMS feep ... __ ... instantly thinks of sex. ;-)
Isn't it amazing the lengths we'll go to to avoid talking to each other?
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Yeah. This and all subparts: my interest in you could be disclosed only if you are also interested in me, my queerness could be disclosed only if you are not Fred Phelps, etc.
It's probably possible to solve this using Realy Clever Mathematics, but it's a lot easier with trusted hardware.
Ain't that the truth! :-)
So when someone sees someone which interests them, they excuse themselves...
I saw a writeup somewhere that went "When I'm interested I get near the other person (near that person's device, more accurately) and push a button. If they've pushed theirs too, my device lights up or buzzes or something." Keeps a lot less data, though, so you still have to figure out the poly thing and somehow determine exactly *which* button-push lit up your life.
and only if the other person also subsequently indicates an interest do both people simultaneously get notified on their cell phone, via an SMS message, that there is a match.
And a generation later, anyone hearing that SMS feep ... __ ... instantly thinks of sex. ;-)
Isn't it amazing the lengths we'll go to to avoid talking to each other?