Coauthor here, somewhat surprised to see this on HN. Any thoughts, questions, or feedback welcome.
The paper says ghost protocol has never been implemented, but wasn't it widely used on trump administration version of the signal-custom-client, which sent messages to a ghost account responsible for indexing and backup of plain text copies?
Thanks for putting this together. Found via Schneier’s blog; I thought it was a good summary, and perhaps needed information in the face of attacks like Chat Control.