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CMSS -- An Improved Merkle Signature Scheme (2006)
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@MISC{Buchmann06cmss--,
author = {Johannes Buchmann and Luis Carlos Coronado García and Erik Dahmen and Elena Klintsevich and Martin Döring and et al.},
title = {CMSS -- An Improved Merkle Signature Scheme },
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
The Merkle signature scheme (MSS) is an interesting alternative for well established signature schemes such as RSA, DSA, and ECDSA. The security of MSS only relies on the existence of cryptographically secure hash functions. MSS has a good chance of being quantum computer resistant. In this paper, we propose CMSS, a variant of MSS, with reduced private key size, key pair generation time, and signature generation time. We demonstrate that CMSS is competitive in practice by presenting a highly efficient implementation within the Java Cryptographic Service Provider FlexiProvider. We present extensive experimental results and show that our implementation can for example be used to sign messages in Microsoft Outlook.
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ms relies cient implementation signature scheme microsoft outlook key pair generation time good chance interesting alternative quantum computer resistant secure hash function present extensive experimental result signature generation time java cryptographic service provider flexiprovider merkle signature scheme reduced private key size
