Update on State Management Recommendations draft-wiggers-hbs-state-00
2024-07-22·
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Thom Wiggers

At IETF 120 in Vancouver, I provided an update on our ongoing work standardizing state and backup management for stateful hash-based signature (HBS) schemes like LMS and XMSS. This update focused on the recently submitted draft-wiggers-hbs-state-00.

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.