# LOAF

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-03-21T15:25:03Z
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31859/20040321.1525

LOAFLoaf is a way to share your address book without abandoning your privacy.Yet another cool idea hatched on IRC by Joshua and Maciej with help from Peter and Dan. It's a distributed email hack that uses Bloom Filters to allow you to check whether mail is from people you know, partial strangers or complete strangers. Lots of obvious applications in spam filters and social networks. Good stuff.

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