Subject: [COSE] Fwd: RFC 8554 on Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures

From: Russ Housley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:35:51 -0400

FYI, the LMS/HSS signature algorithm has been published an an informational RFC.

Russ

> From: [email-masked]
> Subject: [IRTF-Announce] RFC 8554 on Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures
> Date: April 29, 2019 at 5:59:02 PM EDT
> To: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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> 
>        RFC 8554
> 
>        Title:      Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures 
>        Author:     D. McGrew,
>                    M. Curcio,
>                    S. Fluhrer
>        Status:     Informational
>        Stream:     IRTF
>        Date:       April 2019
>        Mailbox:    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked]
>        Pages:      61
>        Characters: 135954
>        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>        I-D Tag:    draft-mcgrew-hash-sigs-15.txt
> 
>        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8554
> 
>        DOI:        10.17487/RFC8554
> 
> This note describes a digital-signature system based on cryptographic
> hash functions, following the seminal work in this area of Lamport,
> Diffie, Winternitz, and Merkle, as adapted by Leighton and Micali in
> 1995.  It specifies a one-time signature scheme and a general
> signature scheme.  These systems provide asymmetric authentication
> without using large integer mathematics and can achieve a high
> security level.  They are suitable for compact implementations, are
> relatively simple to implement, and are naturally resistant to
> side-channel attacks.  Unlike many other signature systems, hash-based
> signatures would still be secure even if it proves feasible for an
> attacker to build a quantum computer.
> 
> This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG)
> in the IRTF.  This has been reviewed by many researchers, both in the
> research group and outside of it.  The Acknowledgements section lists
> many of them.
> 
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