Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity
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For example: an airline trying to determine if a passenger is on the no-fly list, without having the no-fly list, and without the authorities knowing which passenger the airline is inquiring about.
The example shows that you can play a game or Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock over the 'net and know if you have won without telling the opponent your move. (And without a trusted 3rd party, of course)