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IETF Last Call Review of draft-ietf-pquip-pqc-engineers-12
review-ietf-pquip-pqc-engineers-12-tsvart-lc-goel-2025-06-25-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-pquip-pqc-engineers
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 14)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team Transport Area Review Team (tsvart)
Deadline 2025-06-10
Requested 2025-05-27
Authors Aritra Banerjee , Tirumaleswar Reddy.K , Dimitrios Schoinianakis , Tim Hollebeek , Mike Ounsworth
I-D last updated 2026-05-20 (Latest revision 2025-08-25)
Completed reviews Dnsdir IETF Last Call review of -12 by Scott Rose (diff)
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Reviewed revision 12 (document currently at 14)
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Completed 2025-06-25
review-ietf-pquip-pqc-engineers-12-tsvart-lc-goel-2025-06-25-00
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Nits:
Section 2.1:
"However, quantum operations are fundamentally different from classical ones,
whereas 2^{64} classical operations can be efficiently parallelized, 2^{64}
quantum operations must be performed serially, making them infeasible on
practical quantum computers" This sentence could be reworded without the use of
`whereas`, it was a bit confusing for me to read at first.

Section 6.1:
"Key Encapsulation mechanism based on the hardness on learning with errors in
algebraically unstructured lattices." Did you mean based on the hardness of?