• cryptography, the Merkle signature scheme is a digital signature scheme based on Merkle trees (also called hash trees) and one-time signatures such as the Lamport...
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  • hash-based cryptography is used to construct digital signatures schemes such as the Merkle signature scheme, zero knowledge and computationally integrity proofs...
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  • Merkle signature scheme, the XMSS, the SPHINCS, and the WOTS schemes. Hash based digital signatures were invented in the late 1970s by Ralph Merkle and have...
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    the number of leaf nodes itself. A Merkle tree is therefore an efficient example of a cryptographic commitment scheme, in which the root of the tree is...
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    A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives...
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  • cryptography, a Lamport signature or Lamport one-time signature scheme is a method for constructing a digital signature. Lamport signatures can be built from...
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    undergraduate, Merkle devised Merkle's Puzzles, a scheme for communication over an insecure channel, as part of a class project at UC Berkeley. The scheme is now...
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    Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA aka CRYSTALS-Dilithium) with parameter set ML-DSA-87 SHA-2 with 384 or 512 bits eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme (XMSS)...
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  • XMSS may refer to: Extended Merkle signature scheme, a type of hash-based cryptography Xinmin Secondary School, a secondary school in Hougang, Singapore...
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  • The ElGamal signature scheme is a digital signature scheme which is based on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms. It was described by Taher...
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    padding scheme is used and the compression function is collision-resistant, then the hash function will also be collision-resistant. The Merkle–Damgård...
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  • A BLS digital signature, also known as Boneh–Lynn–Shacham (BLS), is a cryptographic signature scheme which allows a user to verify that a signer is authentic...
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    public channel and was one of the first protocols as conceived by Ralph Merkle and named after Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. DH is one of the earliest...
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  • cryptography, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) offers a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic-curve...
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  • The Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem was one of the earliest public key cryptosystems. It was published by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978...
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  • Association for Cryptologic Research. Becker, Georg (2008-07-18). "Merkle Signature Schemes, Merkle Trees and Their Cryptanalysis" (PDF). Ruhr-Universität Bochum...
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  • and ElGamal signature schemes.: 486  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposed DSA for use in their Digital Signature Standard (DSS)...
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  • from the Public Radio Satellite System CMSS, a variant of the Merkle signature scheme CMS (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • applications of the function F. Note that some signature standards (like Extended Merkle signature scheme, XMSS) define w as the number of possible values...
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  • Schnorr signature is a digital signature produced by the Schnorr signature algorithm that was invented by Claus Schnorr. It is a digital signature scheme known...
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  • Diffie-Hellman, [Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman] ECDH, and [Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm] ECDSA) are all vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently large...
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  • NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption) was a European research project funded from 2000 to 2003 to identify secure cryptographic...
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  • Logarithm/Elliptic Curve Key Agreement Scheme, Menezes–Qu–Vanstone version) DL/ECSSA (Discrete Logarithm/Elliptic Curve Signature Scheme with Appendix): Includes four...
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  • BLISS (short for Bimodal Lattice Signature Scheme) is a digital signature scheme proposed by Léo Ducas, Alain Durmus, Tancrède Lepoint and Vadim Lyubashevsky...
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  • The blocks are arranged in a tree, as are their checksums (see Merkle signature scheme). An advantage of copy-on-write is that, when ZFS writes new data...
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    is the digital signature. Digital signature schemes can be used for sender authentication. Non-repudiation systems use digital signatures to ensure that...
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  • ElGamal encryption (category Public-key encryption schemes)
    PGP, and other cryptosystems. The Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) is a variant of the ElGamal signature scheme, which should not be confused with ElGamal...
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  • Meredith Gardner • Merkle signature schemeMerkle–Damgård construction • Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem • Merkle's Puzzles • Merkle tree • MESH (cipher)...
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  • encryption of McEliece. Niederreiter can be used to construct a digital signature scheme. A special case of Niederreiter's original proposal was broken but...
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    Almost all digital signature schemes require a cryptographic hash to be calculated over the message. This allows the signature calculation to be performed...
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