Oracle Data provenance and privacy

[cmaaghul]

Good day folks and Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

I am AET newbie so pardon the intro questons…

How does AET ensure the data provenance for its oracles and the privacy of the data requesters e.g. blockchain accounts for data to be used in smart contracts … account A triggers contract B to request Data C to be used in B … masking account A … how, for example, does your oracle approach differ from TownCrier or Rhombus or Oraclize? Any comparative analysis? Thanks!

[albena.chain]

Hey @cmaaghul,

Sorry for the late response - you can learn everything you need about oracles in this thread:

[ORACLES] Updates, Requests, Questions and Feedback

it is not possible to query the oracle and process its response within one function call right? It can certainly be done, but I can’t really think of a useful case since it would mean that the contract would also have to act as the oracle in between query and reading the answer _how would oracle responses be processed? _ Oracles are dual purpose, either they are “plain text” and then all processing is done off-chain. Or they are “contract oracles” and in that case queries and responses…

Let us know if you have more questions!
Albena