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Systematic Academic Fraud in Visual Encryption Research: A Case Study in Paper Mill Detection

The pressure to publish in academic environments has created perverse incentives that can drive researchers toward unethical practices. Paper mills - commercial operations that produce fraudulent academic manuscripts - exploit these pressures by offering researchers ready-made publications for career advancement. While the existence of paper mills has been documented across various disciplines, their infiltration into cryptographic research presents particular concerns given the security-critical nature of the field. The systematic production of low-quality or fraudulent cryptographic research not only pollutes the academic literature but potentially undermines confidence in legitimate security research and implementations.

Within the broader field of cryptography, "visual encryption" has emerged as a particularly problematic subdomain that appears to attract paper mill activity. Unlike established areas such as

	from sage.all import random_prime, GF, EllipticCurve, GF, is_prime
	import math
	ZETA = lambda n,x,p: pow(x, ((p-1)//n), p)
	MODSQRT = lambda n, p: pow(n % p, (p + 1) // 4, p)

	def cornacchia(d, p):
	"""
	Standard Cornacchia algorithm for x^2 + d*y^2 = p
	"""
	assert p % 12 == 7

	$ ./bin/poly1305.native.exe

	2.5.2. Poly1305 Example and Test Vector

	For our example, we will dispense with generating the one-time key
	using AES, and assume that we got the following keying material:

	o Key Material: 85:d6:be:78:57:55:6d:33:7f:44:52:fe:42:d5:06:a8:01:0
	3:80:8a:fb:0d:b2:fd:4a:bf:f6:af:41:49:f5:1b

	[package]
	name = "orc-builder"
	version = "0.1.0"
	edition = "2021"

	[dependencies]
	clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive"] }
	serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
	serde_json = "1.0"
	sha2 = "0.10"

	import time
	from dataclasses import dataclass
	from typing import Awaitable, Callable, Generic, Iterable, Literal, Tuple, TypeVar, Union

	_TaskInputT = TypeVar('_TaskInputT')
	_TaskOutputT = TypeVar('_TaskOutputT')

	TaskTypeT = Literal['first', 'intermediate', 'final']

	@dataclass

	// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only

	pragma solidity ^0.8.0;

	import { IERC721 } from '@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/IERC721.sol';
	import { IERC721Receiver } from '@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/IERC721Receiver.sol';

	import { Staking } from './Staking.sol';
	import { randomBytes32 } from './Random.sol';
	import { Moderation } from './Moderation.sol';

	use merlin::Transcript;

	pub trait TranscriptExt {
	// Proposed method to fork a transcript
	fn fork_transcript(&mut self) -> Transcript;

	// Proposed method to append another transcript
	fn append_transcript(&mut self, other: &mut Transcript);
	}

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	import os
	import re
	import sys
	import requests
	import calendar
	from datetime import datetime, timedelta, date
	from typing import TypedDict
	from collections import defaultdict

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Triangle</title>
	</head>

	<body>
	<canvas id="canvas" width=500 height=500></canvas>
	<script>

	// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

	pragma solidity ^0.8.0;

	contract RandomStorage {
	mapping(bytes32 => bytes32) internal data;

	event ReadEvent(bytes32 k, bytes32 v);

	constructor() {}