I opened and made a bak copy,
I read the first 2 paragraphs and your writing skills and style sounds interesting, for instance words like "rail" have interesting meaning for our community.
Regards to the scientific method for research, I am not aware
withif we do have an association like ACM, IEEE, AAAI, etc ... I would bet that maybe we are more close to IACR
Anyway a quick question do you have a preferences for scientific citation style, while referring to others ?
for instance,