[Asiacrypt2025] Your Proof in [978-981-95-5112-5, ASIACRYPT 2025, Part IV, LNCS 16248, paper approval (679527_1_En, Chapter 16)]

[Tanja Lange]

Dear Mr. Manigandan,
Thank you for sending the updated pdf. We have checked the changes and are very
happy to see that all of them have been done. Thank you for the uick handling.
We're happy to approve this version.

All the best
	Tanja


On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 02:41:49PM +0530, Manigandan K Kumar R wrote:
> Dear Dr. Tanja Lange,
> 
> I hope this email finds you well.
> 
> I would like to inform you that we have incorporated your amendments and
> attached the revised PDF for your final review.
> 
> Please check the PDF and provide your comments/approval at the earliest to move
> forward with the publishing process.
> 
> Also, the conference will start on December 08 and we must publish this
> proceeding by the end of this week. So it would be very much helpful if you
> could provide your response by today.
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> On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 at 07:20, Tanja Lange <tanja at hyperelliptic.org> wrote:
> 
>     Dear Mr Manigandan,
>     I just went to your page to do another check but the page tells me that the
>     manuscript has been "implicitly approved". My co-author, Daniel J.
>     Bernstein
>     says that he had uploaded comments, so it should certainly not be in an
>     _approved_ state. Furthermore, it now still is less than 72h after your
>     email
>     sending us the link. I would also like to point out that the emal was
>     malformed
>     (see below) and came 4 days after the announced time, (26 Nov instead of 22
>     Nov). These, and the timely comments from Bernstein, should be enough to
>     grant
>     an extension, but mot importantly, the errors need to be fixed. So, please
>     send
>     us an updated version.
> 
>     This email covers the same issues submitted through the form and adds
>     information, just in case your system really didn't register our
>     complaints.
> 
>     Author information:
>     My primary affiliation is Eindhoven University of Technology; Academia
>     Sinica
>     is only a secondary affiliation. Hence, we had correctly put {3,2} next to
>     my
>     name. This got changed to {2,3} in the paper and the metadata lists them in
>     the
>     worng order of priority.
>     The locations of displaying the email addresses got changed, also
>     indicating
>     falsely indicatig Academia Sinica as my main affiliation.
>     I'm attaching our version to show that it was correct.
>     If your system cannot handle a {3,2} then please change the order of the
>     institutions to
>     1 UIC
>     2 TUE
>     3 AS
>     so that Bernstein ends up with {1,3}, I end up woth {2,3} and Pellegrini
>     with
>     {2}. Please algin Pellegrini's and my email address with TUE.
> 
>     The use of "et al." in the author line at the top of pages is unacceptable.
>     All
>     author names fit.
>     Put "Daniel J. Bernstein, Tanja Lange, and Alex Pellegrini" in the header
>     on
>     the left pages.
> 
>     Table 1 is a very important table for this paper and we had ensured that it
>     was
>     prominently visible on the top of a page. In your version it apppears in
>     the
>     iddle of the text, right after the meniton, as if we didn't understand how
>     to
>     use latex properly. I understand that forr displaying the paper on the
>     Springer
>     link webpage the concept of page does not exist, but for the printed
>     version
>     and the rendering in pdf it does, so please reinstate the prominent
>     posiiton
>     that it had.
> 
>     The same applies for Table 2.
> 
>     Your editors removed chronological information, and information of what
>     relevance we give to the papers we cite,  by changing how tations appear in
>     the
>     text. E.g.
>     "see [10], [5], [11], and [6]" is in chronological order and in the order
>     in
>     which the interested reader should consume these papers. This got changed
>     to
>     "see [5, 10, 11], and [6]"
>     which is giving fale priority to [5]. This is just one example and I fear
>     that
>     this was some manual process an editor went through, but that means that
>     this
>     editor now has to go through the manual proecess to revert this.
>     I strongly hope that this is not part of your editing guidelines, but if it
>     is,
>     please remove it. Authors know the works they are citing and we certainly
>     are
>     able to put numbers in increasing orders if we wanted to, hence, you should
>     assume that there is meaning in the ordering and not change it.
> 
>     The same comment applies to "[42], [27], [20], and [19]".
> 
>     In Section 7.4, "in Sage" is improperly indented, it is the ending of the
>     sentence after the display of a code snippet.
> 
>     It is absolutely inacceptable to truncate the list of authors in the
>     bibliography. Author names in mathematical publications are conventionally
>     listed in alphabetical order, making it unethical to specifically broadcast
>     a
>     "lead" author's name.
>     This applies to publications {1], [2], and [3], which, as you can see, are
>     ordered alphabeticaly, but I can assure you that Bernstein and me did our
>     fair
>     share of work for [2] and should get that work acknowledged. Besides the
>     issue
>     of academic credit, the list of authors is also important to judge the
>     level of
>     independence of a publication. If we were to portrait [2] in a more
>     favorable
>     light than [1] or [3] the reader should be able to see that our judgement
>     might
>     be biased due to involvement in [2].
>     I hope this explains why this is a really important issue. If your database
>     has
>     lost the information on the authors this must be fixed at the root and for
>     all
>     papers that link to it, not just for those few where the authors take the
>     time
>     to drag themselves through comparing the bibliography entries.
> 
>     There is also an "et a;." in the list of editors of [10].
> 
>     Since you're editing the file again anyways, we would kindly ask to fix two
>     typos that we noticed in reviewing the proof.
> 
>     * Please also insert a semicolon at the end of 3(b) in Algorithm 4.
> 
>     * Please change "c_{ab}" to "C_{ab}" in [8]
> 
>     Looking forward to hearing back from you
>             Tanja
>     On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 08:05:24AM +0530, manigandank.kumarr at straive.com
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