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: I suspect Diffie-Hellman ratchets were invented in OtR, maybe by Ian Goldberg. Axolotl combines a natural successor to the OtR's Diffie-Hellman ratchet with a kinda weak hash iteration ratchet invented by Silent Circle. It gives you stronger forward secrecy properties than either one.
: In fact, a huge advancement here is not so much the ratchet itself as the understanding that the ratchet state should be preserved long-term in between what the users view as sessions. I suspect Silent Circle should be credited with that, as they were interested in email-like applications.
: At times, Axolotl is credited to both Moxie and Trevor. A priori, I'd suspect
== Ratcheting (cryptography) article requested ==
I added a request for a [[Ratcheting (cryptography)]] article to [[Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Mathematics#Cryptography]]. [[User:Squideshi|Squideshi]] ([[User talk:Squideshi|talk]]) 21:20, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
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