[Cryptography] New White Paper: GhostLine - Information-Theoretically Secure Multi-Party Chat

Bill Stewart billstewart at pobox.com
Tue Sep 16 16:25:39 EDT 2025


On 9/10/25 04:49, David Kane-Parry via cryptography wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2025, at 23:12, Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> wrote:
>> A long time ago, I wrote an article that I titled, "The Seduction of 
>> the One-Time Pad" -- it might still exist, or it might have been lost 
>> to the mists of archival storage.
> 
> At least for now, it still exists at https://www.slideserve.com/ida/the- 
> seduction-of-the-one-time-pad <https://www.slideserve.com/ida/the- 
> seduction-of-the-one-time-pad>

The one change from then to now that I see is the example of 
pre-distributing keys to a 1000-person company needed 1/2 TB of storage,
and the "I'd like a laptop with 1/2 TB of storage", infeasible in 1998,
is now "sure, that's $50 extra."  (Still not scalable, of course.)


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