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Are you sure it is the same Ariadne? The paper you linked is from 2002 and does not mention aperiodic or "Cryptographic Virtual Machine"

• bilekas 1y ago
  It's related only to the protocol. > Ariadne is efficient, using only highly efficient symmetric cryptographic primitives. Your implementation is up to you really. As I see the OP's link, this is just an aperiodic implementation of the Ariadne protocol in Rust ?
• ciphernomad-org 1y ago
  You are correct, it is not the same project. That's a name collision with a 2002 paper. To your original question on the benefits over a standard AEAD: For stateless encryption, our `ariadne-etm` crate offers no major advantage. The core protocol, however, is a programmable, stateful cryptographic engine. This enables new protocol designs. For example: 1. Smarter Transport Layers. The Labyrinth can be a public parameter derived from a server's key. This allows building in features like proof-of-work for DoS resistance or cryptographic watermarks for traitor-tracing directly into the transport layer. 2. Verifiable Stateful Computation. The architecture allows proving that a secret, stateful program was honestly executed over a verifiable duration. The program's execution path leaves an irreversible "scar" on a one-time-use Labyrinth, creating a commitment to the entire computational history. The point isn't to replace AES. It's a new foundation for different kinds of cryptographic systems.