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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, 6 Dec 2025 at 08:02, Tanja Lange <<a href="mailto:tanja@hyperelliptic.org">tanja@hyperelliptic.org</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">Dear Mr. Manigandan,<br>
Thank you for sending the updated pdf. We have checked the changes and are very<br>
happy to see that all of them have been done. Thank you for the uick handling.<br>
We're happy to approve this version.<br>
<br>
All the best<br>
Tanja<br>
<br>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 02:41:49PM +0530, Manigandan K Kumar R wrote:<br>
> Dear Dr. Tanja Lange,<br>
> <br>
> I hope this email finds you well.<br>
> <br>
> I would like to inform you that we have incorporated your amendments and<br>
> attached the revised PDF for your final review.<br>
> <br>
> Please check the PDF and provide your comments/approval at the earliest to move<br>
> forward with the publishing process.<br>
> <br>
> Also, the conference will start on December 08 and we must publish this<br>
> proceeding by the end of this week. So it would be very much helpful if you<br>
> could provide your response by today.<br>
> <br>
> Thank you for your help and kind understanding.<br>
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> On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 at 07:20, Tanja Lange <<a href="mailto:tanja@hyperelliptic.org" target="_blank">tanja@hyperelliptic.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
> 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<br>
> email<br>
> sending us the link. I would also like to point out that the emal was<br>
> 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<br>
> grant<br>
> an extension, but mot importantly, the errors need to be fixed. So, please<br>
> 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<br>
> complaints.<br>
> <br>
> Author information:<br>
> My primary affiliation is Eindhoven University of Technology; Academia<br>
> Sinica<br>
> is only a secondary affiliation. Hence, we had correctly put {3,2} next to<br>
> my<br>
> name. This got changed to {2,3} in the paper and the metadata lists them in<br>
> the<br>
> worng order of priority.<br>
> The locations of displaying the email addresses got changed, also<br>
> 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<br>
> 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.<br>
> All<br>
> author names fit.<br>
> Put "Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, and Alex Pellegrini" in the header<br>
> on<br>
> the left pages.<br>
> <br>
> Table 1 is a very important table for this paper and we had ensured that it<br>
> was<br>
> prominently visible on the top of a page. In your version it apppears in<br>
> the<br>
> iddle of the text, right after the meniton, as if we didn't understand how<br>
> to<br>
> use latex properly. I understand that forr displaying the paper on the<br>
> Springer<br>
> link webpage the concept of page does not exist, but for the printed<br>
> version<br>
> and the rendering in pdf it does, so please reinstate the prominent<br>
> posiiton<br>
> that it had.<br>
> <br>
> The same applies for Table 2.<br>
> <br>
> Your editors removed chronological information, and information of what<br>
> relevance we give to the papers we cite, by changing how tations appear in<br>
> the<br>
> text. E.g.<br>
> "see [10], [5], [11], and [6]" is in chronological order and in the order<br>
> in<br>
> which the interested reader should consume these papers. This got changed<br>
> to<br>
> "see [5, 10, 11], and [6]"<br>
> which is giving fale priority to [5]. This is just one example and I fear<br>
> that<br>
> this was some manual process an editor went through, but that means that<br>
> 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<br>
> is,<br>
> please remove it. Authors know the works they are citing and we certainly<br>
> 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<br>
> 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<br>
> fair<br>
> share of work for [2] and should get that work acknowledged. Besides the<br>
> issue<br>
> of academic credit, the list of authors is also important to judge the<br>
> level of<br>
> independence of a publication. If we were to portrait [2] in a more<br>
> favorable<br>
> light than [1] or [3] the reader should be able to see that our judgement<br>
> might<br>
> be biased due to involvement in [2].<br>
> I hope this explains why this is a really important issue. If your database<br>
> has<br>
> lost the information on the authors this must be fixed at the root and for<br>
> all<br>
> papers that link to it, not just for those few where the authors take the<br>
> 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>
> <br>
> Looking forward to hearing back from you<br>
> Tanja<br>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 08:05:24AM +0530, <a href="mailto:manigandank.kumarr@straive.com" target="_blank">manigandank.kumarr@straive.com</a><br>
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