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    Presentations 2024
Presentation

A note on SPHINCS+ parameter sets

April 11, 2024

Presenters

Stefan Kölbl - Google

Description

In this note, we explore parameter sets for SPHINCS+ which support a smaller number of signatures than 264, but are otherwise compatible with the SLH-DSA specification. In practice, use cases for which a low number of signatures per key pair suffice are common, and as we will show this allows a significant reduction in signature size and verification speed for SPHINCS+. For this we carry out a larger search through the SPHINCS+ parameter space, comparing it with the current parameter sets and further showing that for carefully chosen parameter the security degrades slowly if one exceeds the limits. Finally, we provide a case study for firmware signing on OpenTitan to demonstrate the efficiency of these alternative parameters.

Presented at

5th PQC Standardization Conference (2024) [in-person]

Event Details

Location

    The NIST PQC conference will be held at the:
Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel
1750 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852

Related Topics

Security and Privacy: post-quantum cryptography

Created April 10, 2024, Updated April 12, 2024