This document discusses orthogonalization of lattice bases. It defines the span and fundamental parallelepiped of a lattice. A set of vectors B forms a basis for lattice L if the intersection of the fundamental parallelepiped and L contains only the origin. Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization takes linearly independent vectors and produces an orthogonal basis. The determinant of a lattice is equal to the volume of the fundamental parallelepiped, which can be computed from the orthogonalized basis vectors. Shortest vector properties depend on the minimum length of the orthogonalized basis vectors.