RFC 8554: Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures

This note describes a digital-signature system based on cryptographic hash functions, following the seminal work in this area of Lamport, Diffie, Winternitz,…

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Outgoing relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Normative reference — RFC 8179: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8778: Use of the HSS/LMS Hash-Based Signature Algorithm with CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8708: Use of the HSS/LMS Hash-Based Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9708: Use of the HSS/LMS Hash-Based Signature Algorithm in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9802: Use of the HSS and XMSS Hash-Based Signature Algorithms in Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9858: Additional Parameter Sets for HSS/LMS Hash-Based Signatures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9958: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Engineers