I also don't think it's appropriate for a cryptography paper to cite 4 articles about breaches and 0 articles about signing, and to mention the word "cryptograp

I also don't think it's appropriate for a cryptography paper to cite 4 articles about breaches and 0 articles about signing, and to mention the word "cryptography" 0 times and "signature" once. Seems like the author might realize that there's a body of work on this subject that they should engage with.