### WOTS+ -- Shorter Signatures for Hash-Based Signature Schemes

Andreas Hülsing

##### Abstract

We present WOTS+, a Winternitz type one-time signature scheme (WOTS). We prove that WOTS+ is strongly unforgeable under chosen message attacks in the standard model. Our proof is exact and tight. The first property allows us to compute the security of the scheme for given parameters. The second property allows for shorter signatures than previous proposals without lowering the security. This improvement in signature size directly carries over to all recent hash-based signature schemes. I.e. we can reduce the signature size by more than 50% for XMSS+ at a security level of 80 bits. As the main drawback of hash-based signature schemes is assumed to be the signature size, this is a further step in making hash-based signatures practical.

Available format(s)
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. MINOR revision.AFRICACRYPT 2013
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-38553-7
Keywords
digital signaturesone-time signature schemeshash-based signaturesprovable securityhash functions
Contact author(s)
andreas @ huelsing net
History
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/965

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/965,
author = {Andreas Hülsing},
title = {WOTS+ -- Shorter Signatures for Hash-Based Signature Schemes},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/965},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-38553-7},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/965}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/965}
}

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