the pq* scheme looks pretty simple to describe: no group structure with computable period, no factorization or discrete logarithm, it’s a combinatorial problem, not algebraic, etc but reality is harder,you could spend 8 weeks continuously checking the simplest task of finding a low weight vector “e” given a syndrome and hypergraph (np complete prob) without going insane and it takes the same amount of time to code a simple check func (+ a personal feeling that you are wrong at every step) * we are fighting an “enemy” that does not yet physically exist and we take it seriously
@lambda0xE do you think the biggest challenge in this pq scheme is the math itself, or the psychological grind of working on something so abstract and uncertain?
