On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 4:16 PM Karl Semich <0xloem@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm looking through the goldbug audit a little.

On page 8 they describe a feature of "Instant Perfect Forward Secrecy (IPFS)". I'm not a cryptographer and haven't learned about cryptographic primitives since before forward secrecy was a thing, but I don't get any website for this and it has a misleading

*any webhits for this

acronym, so I'm wondering if they made it up to align with the popularity of the IPFS project to readers. Such behavior is similar to the claim of being endorsed by the CCC and EFF, or the claims for all the developers and projects being suspicious after one suspicious thing happened.

It's notable that in the work they actually gave their own made up names to a lot of things, and this is documented in their manual. It's probably helped them be able to share their work longer, to have it less recognisable for people who might not want it.