[ot] [semi-wrong] possible partial review of goldbug Re: GoldBug Messenger Fraud? [was: FBI encrypted app, global arrests]

[Karl Semich]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 4:16 PM Karl Semich <0xloem at 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.

>
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