Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the dual challenges involved in protecting intellectual property while distributing business information that will need to be readable/viewable at some point such that it can be acted upon by parties external to the organization. We describe the principles involved with developing such a system as a means to engender trust in such situations – as a deperimeterized supply chain likely acting through the Cloud – discuss the requirements for such a system, and demonstrate that such a system is feasible for written text by formulating the problem as one related to plagiarism detection. The core of the approach, developed previously, has been shown to be effective in finding similar content (precision: 0.88), and has some robustness to obfuscation, without needing to reveal the content being sought.