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</span></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 at 14:58, Alex Pellegrini <<a href="mailto:alex.pellegrini@live.com">alex.pellegrini@live.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Dear Mr Manigandan,</div>
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While double-checking the final files, we noticed one additional typo that we would kindly like to correct before publication.<br>
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In the file scheme.tex, line 90, the current text is:</div>
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\item Return $(\mathbf{A},t)$ as public key and $(\PP_h,\gamma)$ as private key.</div>
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The $(\mathbf{A},t)$ should be replaced with $(\mathbf{A}, \lfloor (k-2g(\XX))/2 \rfloor)$.<br>
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Thanks for your assistance.</div>
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Please let us know if anything further is required from our side.</div>
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Kind regards,</div>
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<div id="m_-5258943370256608011divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Tanja Lange <<a href="mailto:tanja@hyperelliptic.org" target="_blank">tanja@hyperelliptic.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 29, 2025 7:19:41 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Your Proof in [978-981-95-5112-5, ASIACRYPT 2025, Part IV, LNCS 16248, paper approval (679527_1_En, Chapter 16)]</font>
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<div>Dear Mr Manigandan,<br>
I just went to your page to do another check but the page tells me that the<br>
manuscript has been "implicitly approved". My co-author, Daniel J. Bernstein<br>
says that he had uploaded comments, so it should certainly not be in an<br>
_approved_ state. Furthermore, it now still is less than 72h after your email<br>
sending us the link. I would also like to point out that the emal was malformed<br>
(see below) and came 4 days after the announced time, (26 Nov instead of 22<br>
Nov). These, and the timely comments from Bernstein, should be enough to grant<br>
an extension, but mot importantly, the errors need to be fixed. So, please send<br>
us an updated version. <br>
<br>
This email covers the same issues submitted through the form and adds<br>
information, just in case your system really didn't register our complaints.<br>
<br>
Author information:<br>
My primary affiliation is Eindhoven University of Technology; Academia Sinica<br>
is only a secondary affiliation. Hence, we had correctly put {3,2} next to my<br>
name. This got changed to {2,3} in the paper and the metadata lists them in the<br>
worng order of priority.<br>
The locations of displaying the email addresses got changed, also indicating<br>
falsely indicatig Academia Sinica as my main affiliation.<br>
I'm attaching our version to show that it was correct.<br>
If your system cannot handle a {3,2} then please change the order of the<br>
institutions to<br>
1 UIC<br>
2 TUE<br>
3 AS<br>
so that Bernstein ends up with {1,3}, I end up woth {2,3} and Pellegrini with<br>
{2}. Please algin Pellegrini's and my email address with TUE.<br>
<br>
The use of "et al." in the author line at the top of pages is unacceptable. All<br>
author names fit.<br>
Put "Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, and Alex Pellegrini" in the header on<br>
the left pages.<br>
<br>
Table 1 is a very important table for this paper and we had ensured that it was<br>
prominently visible on the top of a page. In your version it apppears in the<br>
iddle of the text, right after the meniton, as if we didn't understand how to<br>
use latex properly. I understand that forr displaying the paper on the Springer<br>
link webpage the concept of page does not exist, but for the printed version<br>
and the rendering in pdf it does, so please reinstate the prominent posiiton<br>
that it had.<br>
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The same applies for Table 2.<br>
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Your editors removed chronological information, and information of what<br>
relevance we give to the papers we cite, by changing how tations appear in the<br>
text. E.g.<br>
"see [10], [5], [11], and [6]" is in chronological order and in the order in<br>
which the interested reader should consume these papers. This got changed to<br>
"see [5, 10, 11], and [6]"<br>
which is giving fale priority to [5]. This is just one example and I fear that<br>
this was some manual process an editor went through, but that means that this<br>
editor now has to go through the manual proecess to revert this. <br>
I strongly hope that this is not part of your editing guidelines, but if it is,<br>
please remove it. Authors know the works they are citing and we certainly are<br>
able to put numbers in increasing orders if we wanted to, hence, you should<br>
assume that there is meaning in the ordering and not change it. <br>
<br>
The same comment applies to "[42], [27], [20], and [19]".<br>
<br>
In Section 7.4, "in Sage" is improperly indented, it is the ending of the<br>
sentence after the display of a code snippet.<br>
<br>
It is absolutely inacceptable to truncate the list of authors in the<br>
bibliography. Author names in mathematical publications are conventionally<br>
listed in alphabetical order, making it unethical to specifically broadcast a<br>
"lead" author's name. <br>
This applies to publications {1], [2], and [3], which, as you can see, are<br>
ordered alphabeticaly, but I can assure you that Bernstein and me did our fair<br>
share of work for [2] and should get that work acknowledged. Besides the issue<br>
of academic credit, the list of authors is also important to judge the level of<br>
independence of a publication. If we were to portrait [2] in a more favorable<br>
light than [1] or [3] the reader should be able to see that our judgement might<br>
be biased due to involvement in [2].<br>
I hope this explains why this is a really important issue. If your database has<br>
lost the information on the authors this must be fixed at the root and for all<br>
papers that link to it, not just for those few where the authors take the time<br>
to drag themselves through comparing the bibliography entries.<br>
<br>
There is also an "et a;." in the list of editors of [10].<br>
<br>
Since you're editing the file again anyways, we would kindly ask to fix two<br>
typos that we noticed in reviewing the proof.<br>
<br>
* Please also insert a semicolon at the end of 3(b) in Algorithm 4.<br>
<br>
* Please change "c_{ab}" to "C_{ab}" in [8]<br>
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Looking forward to hearing back from you<br>
Tanja<br>
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