It makes one wonder what PLOS does to _verify_ an author's identity. Do they only accept submissions from people who are already known... or could you fabricate a plausible name and curriculum vitae?
I'm not sure it matters though. The PLOS publications all seem to concern biology, medical science and the like. No math-y journals, at least I don't find any.
I think generally you submit from a .edu or .gov email address, or IBM.com email or whatever, and that is a decent verification that you are who you say you are and you work where you say you work.
PLOS One publishes science, period.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/search?q=cryptography&filterJournals=PLoSONEI think if the email came from a monero domains (specifically, the core-team managed domain getmonero.org), it would be fine. There's nothing in the submission guidelines that suggests otherwise.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submission-guidelinesEach author on the list must have an affiliation. The affiliation includes department, university, or organizational affiliation and its location, including city, state/province (if applicable), and country.
I think its doable. The formatting of the MRL docs would need to be modified and we'd need to properly cite more things. For instance, the footnote on the final page of MRL1 "[3]See what I did there?" would need to go. In general, the tone of bulletin 1 is a bit colloquial.
