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Comment by Sesse__

2 days ago

> a bloom filter look up is by hash, and given the relatively small set of words in english, it would be pretty easy for the server to reverse the hash sent to it. Thus a bloom filter wouldn't be very private.

The typical use of a Bloom filter is to have it locally as a prefilter, not to send hashes to the server.

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