A public key cryptosystem and a signature scheme based on discrete logarithms
Proceedings of CRYPTO 84 on Advances in cryptology
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems
Communications of the ACM
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
A Forward-Secure Digital Signature Scheme
CRYPTO '99 Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
CRYPTO '89 Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring
SFCS '94 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Hash based digital signature schemes
IMA'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cryptography and Coding
A one-time signature using run-length encoding
Information Processing Letters
Merkle Signatures with Virtually Unlimited Signature Capacity
ACNS '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
Fast Hash-Based Signatures on Constrained Devices
CARDIS '08 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 international conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications
Merkle Tree Traversal Revisited
PQCrypto '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography
Side Channels in the McEliece PKC
PQCrypto '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography
Short Hash-Based Signatures for Wireless Sensor Networks
CANS '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security
Verifiably Encrypted Signatures from RSA without NIZKs
INDOCRYPT '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cryptology in India: Progress in Cryptology
A novel cryptoprocessor architecture for chained Merkle signature scheme
Microprocessors & Microsystems
The future of high-speed cryptography: new computing platforms and new ciphers
Proceedings of the 21st edition of the great lakes symposium on Great lakes symposium on VLSI
An FPGA accelerator for hash tree generation in the merkle signature scheme
ARC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Reconfigurable Computing: architectures, Tools and Applications
A smart card implementation of the mceliece PKC
WISTP'10 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 11.2 international conference on Information Security Theory and Practices: security and Privacy of Pervasive Systems and Smart Devices
XMSS - a practical forward secure signature scheme based on minimal security assumptions
PQCrypto'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography
ISC'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Information Security
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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.