The ML-KEM Braid protocol was designed by Graeme Connell and Rolfe Schmidt.
The notion of Sparse Continuous Key Agreement and the general opportunistic sending strategy underlying the ML-KEM Braid were introduced in [3]. The co-authors of this paper, Benedikt Auerbach, Yevgeniy Dodis, Daniel Jost, and Shuichi Katsumata contributed protocol design, analysis, and editorial feedback.
Karthik Bhargavan and Franziskus Kiefer were involved throughout the implementation process and contributed to the detailed design, modeling and analysis of the ML-KEM Braid using ProVerif, and provided editorial feedback on this documentation.
Thanks to Rune Fiedler, Charlie Jacomme and Nadim Kobeissi for valuable editorial feedback.
This work builds on the firm foundation the cryptography research community has created for us, and we deeply appreciate their continued efforts to improve our understanding of secure communication.