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Author just edited it and added your post as a reference: https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/commit/2fc4d85714d2bde3aca669c86998154c9e840f10 https://gitlab.com/

Author just edited it and added your post as a reference: https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/commit/2fc4d85714d2bde3aca669c86998154c9e840f10 https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/commit/2fc4d85714d2bde3aca... ... + 7 https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb9013a https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb901... by https://twitter.com/thegrugq https://twitter.com/thegrugq

grugq 8y ago
He did only after I publicly called him out[0]. And it is still plagiarism. “Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.”[1] [0] https://twitter.com/Edu4rdSHL/status/1081971696431706113 https://twitter.com/Edu4rdSHL/status/1081971696431706113 [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
et-al 8y ago
And the other parts of the post are copied verbatim from the MTProto paper. Check out the "MTProto is not IND-CCA secure" section Eduard Toloza supposedly wrote: https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/blob/9d490385d53cdf7048d16f5c27c215ebb45f6a3b/why-telegram-is-insecure.md#mtproto-is-not-ind-cca-secure https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/blob/9d490385d53cdf7048d16... > Here I briefly present the two attacks that show that MTProto is not IND-CCA secure. We assume the reader to be familiar with the notion of IND-CCA security... > Once again, I stress that the attacks are only of theoretical nature and we do not see a way of turning them into full-plaintext recovery. Yet, we believe that these attacks are yet another proof [https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/428.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/428.pdf] that designing your own crypto rarely is a good idea. And compare it to Jakob Jakobsen and Claudio Orlandi's paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf The "author" just swapped out the "we" for "I". Aside from the text in bold at the bottom, there's no original content. It's plagiarism.

grugq 8y ago

He did only after I publicly called him out[0]. And it is still plagiarism. “Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.”[1] [0] https://twitter.com/Edu4rdSHL/status/1081971696431706113 https://twitter.com/Edu4rdSHL/status/1081971696431706113 [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

et-al 8y ago

And the other parts of the post are copied verbatim from the MTProto paper. Check out the "MTProto is not IND-CCA secure" section Eduard Toloza supposedly wrote: https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/blob/9d490385d53cdf7048d16f5c27c215ebb45f6a3b/why-telegram-is-insecure.md#mtproto-is-not-ind-cca-secure https://gitlab.com/edu4rdshl/blog/blob/9d490385d53cdf7048d16... > Here I briefly present the two attacks that show that MTProto is not IND-CCA secure. We assume the reader to be familiar with the notion of IND-CCA security... > Once again, I stress that the attacks are only of theoretical nature and we do not see a way of turning them into full-plaintext recovery. Yet, we believe that these attacks are yet another proof [https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/428.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/428.pdf] that designing your own crypto rarely is a good idea. And compare it to Jakob Jakobsen and Claudio Orlandi's paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf The "author" just swapped out the "we" for "I". Aside from the text in bold at the bottom, there's no original content. It's plagiarism.