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Title : Hash-Based Signatures
Authors : David McGrew
Michael Curcio
Filename : draft-mcgrew-hash-sigs-04.txt
Pages : 43
Date : 2016-03-21
Abstract:
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 naturally resist side-channel
attacks. Unlike most other signature systems, hash-based signatures
would still be secure even if it proves feasible for an attacker to
build a quantum computer.
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