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RFC 9858
Title: Additional Parameter Sets for HSS/LMS
Hash-Based Signatures
Author: S. Fluhrer,
Q. Dang
Status: Informational
Stream: IRTF
Date: October 2025
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected]
Pages: 25
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-fluhrer-lms-more-parm-sets-19.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9858
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9858
This document extends HSS/LMS (RFC 8554) by defining parameter sets
that use alternative hash functions. These include hash functions
that result in signatures with significantly smaller sizes than the
signatures that use the RFC 8554 parameter sets and should have
sufficient security.
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