<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 5, 2025, at 9:02 PM, Ferecides de Siros via cryptography <<a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com" class="">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span class="">Hello,</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="">I would like to share my new white paper for community discussion and feedback.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I'm posting this as a public service to the crypto list. I looked at this paper so you don't have to. The paper appears superficially plausible, but the general heuristic that any mention of a one-time-pad is a strong indicator of crackpottery applies here. AFAICT on a cursory reading, the paper isn't wrong, it just leaves out one teensy little detail: key exchange. There is a reason that OTP is never used in practice despite being information-theoretically secure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are additional clues: the "From" header lists the senders name as "Ferecides de Siros" [1] but the message body and the paper both say that the author's name is "Hitokiri Battosai" [2], and the "about me" page on the web site listed in the contact information in the paper says "I'm Aristoh4ck8r, the enigmatic force behind the curtain."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My bogometer is pegged.</div><div><br class=""></div></div><div class="">rg</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">---</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://en.absolutviajes.com/Greece/ferecides-of-siros/" class="">https://en.absolutviajes.com/Greece/ferecides-of-siros/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[2] <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hitokiri+Battousai" class="">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hitokiri+Battousai</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>