Managing state and backups in stateful hash-based signature schemes
2024-03-04·
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Thom Wiggers

Date
2024-03-04 14:10 — 2024-03-07 14:35
Event
NIST SP800-208 Discussion
Location
NIST NCCoE
Rockyville, Maryland
NIST organized a discussion event on SP800-208. At this event, I presented a draft IETF document in which we give recommendations for those setting up systems that will rely on stateful hash-based signature schemes.
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(I attended remotely)

Authors
Senior Cryptography Researcher
Thom Wiggers is a cryptography researcher at PQShield.
His PhD thesis was on the interactions of post-quantum cryptography with protocols, under the supervision of Peter Schwabe, at the Institute of Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University in The Netherlands.