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INTERNET-DRAFT                                                R. Housley
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                    Vigil Security
Intended Status: Proposed Standard
Expires: 18 March 2020                                 18 September 2019

           Use of the HSS/LMS Hash-based Signature Algorithm
               in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
                   <draft-ietf-lamps-cms-hash-sig-10>

Abstract

   This document specifies the conventions for using the Hierarchical
   Signature System (HSS) / Leighton-Micali Signature (LMS) hash-based
   signature algorithm with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).  In
   addition, the algorithm identifier and public key syntax are
   provided.  The HSS/LMS algorithm is one form of hash-based digital
   signature; it is described in RFC 8554.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.1.  ASN.1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.3.  Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  HSS/LMS Hash-based Signature Algorithm Overview  . . . . . . .  4
     2.1.  Hierarchical Signature System (HSS)  . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     2.2.  Leighton-Micali Signature (LMS)  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     2.3.  Leighton-Micali One-time Signature Algorithm (LM-OTS)  . .  6
   3.  Algorithm Identifiers and Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   4.  HSS/LMS Public Key Identifier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   5.  Signed-data Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   6.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   7.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   8.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     8.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     8.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   Appendix: ASN.1 Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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1.  Introduction

   This document specifies the conventions for using the Hierarchical
   Signature System (HSS) / Leighton-Micali Signature (LMS) hash-based
   signature algorithm with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) [CMS]
   signed-data content type.  The LMS system provides a one-time digital
   signature that is a variant of Merkle Tree Signatures (MTS).  The HSS
   is built on top of the LMS system to efficiently scale for a larger
   numbers of signatures.  The HSS/LMS algorithm is one form of hash-
   based digital signature, and it is described in [HASHSIG].  The
   HSS/LMS signature algorithm can only be used for a fixed number of
   signing operations with a given private key, and the number of
   signing operations depends upon the size of the tree.  The HSS/LMS
   signature algorithm uses small public keys, and it has low
   computational cost; however, the signatures are quite large.  The
   HSS/LMS private key can be very small when the signer is willing to
   perform additional computation at signing time; alternatively, the
   private key can consume additional memory and provide a faster
   signing time.  The HSS/LMS signatures [HASHSIG] are currently defined
   to use exclusively SHA-256 [SHS].

1.1.  ASN.1

   CMS values are generated using ASN.1 [ASN1-B], using the Basic
   Encoding Rules (BER) and the Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)
   [ASN1-E].

1.2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

1.3.  Motivation

   Recent advances in cryptanalysis [BH2013] and progress in the
   development of quantum computers [NAS2019] pose a threat to widely
   deployed digital signature algorithms.  As a result, there is a need
   to prepare for a day that cryptosystems such as RSA and DSA that
   depend on discrete logarithm and factoring cannot be depended upon.

   If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, these computers will
   be able to break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in
   use.  A post-quantum cryptosystem [PQC] is a system that is secure
   against quantum computers that have more than a trivial number of
   quantum bits (qubits).  It is open to conjecture when it will be

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   feasible to build such computers; however, RSA, DSA, ECDSA, and EdDSA
   are all vulnerable if large-scale quantum computers come to pass.

   Since the HSS/LMS signature algorithm does not depend on the
   difficulty of discrete logarithm or factoring, the HSS/LMS signature
   algorithm is considered to be post-quantum secure.  One use of post-
   quantum secure signatures is the protection of software updates,
   perhaps using the format described in [FWPROT], to enable deployment
   of software that implements new cryptosystems.

2.  HSS/LMS Hash-based Signature Algorithm Overview

   Merkle Tree Signatures (MTS) are a method for signing a large but
   fixed number of messages.  An MTS system depends on a one-time
   signature method and a collision-resistant hash function.

   This specification makes use of the hash-based algorithm specified in
   [HASHSIG], which is the Leighton and Micali adaptation [LM] of the
   original Lamport-Diffie-Winternitz-Merkle one-time signature system
   [M1979][M1987][M1989a][M1989b].

   As implied by the name, the hash-based signature algorithm depends on
   a collision-resistant hash function.  The hash-based signature
   algorithm specified in [HASHSIG] uses only the SHA-256 one-way hash
   function [SHS], but it establishes an IANA registry [IANA-LMS] to
   permit the registration of additional one-way hash functions in the
   future.

2.1.  Hierarchical Signature System (HSS)

   The MTS system specified in [HASHSIG] uses a hierarchy of trees.  The
   Hierarchical N-time Signature System (HSS) allows subordinate trees
   to be generated when needed by the signer.  Otherwise, generation of
   the entire tree might take weeks or longer.

   An HSS signature as specified in [HASHSIG] carries the number of
   signed public keys (Nspk), followed by that number of signed public
   keys, followed by the LMS signature as described in Section 2.2.  The
   public key for the top-most LMS tree is the public key of the HSS
   system.  The LMS private key in the parent tree signs the LMS public
   key in the child tree, and the LMS private key in the bottom-most
   tree signs the actual message. The signature over the public key and
   the signature over the actual message are LMS signatures as described
   in Section 2.2.

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   The elements of the HSS signature value for a stand-alone tree (a top
   tree with no children) can be summarized as:

      u32str(0) ||
      lms_signature  /* signature of message */

   where, u32str() and || are used as defined in [HASHSIG].

   The elements of the HSS signature value for a tree with Nspk signed
   public keys can be summarized as:

      u32str(Nspk) ||
      signed_public_key[0] ||
      signed_public_key[1] ||
         ...
      signed_public_key[Nspk-2] ||
      signed_public_key[Nspk-1] ||
      lms_signature  /* signature of message */

   where, as defined in Section 3.3 of [HASHSIG], the signed_public_key
   structure contains the lms_signature over the public key followed by
   the public key itself.  Note that Nspk is the number of levels in the
   hierarchy of trees minus 1.

2.2.  Leighton-Micali Signature (LMS)

   Each tree in the system specified in [HASHSIG] uses the Leighton-
   Micali Signature (LMS) system.  LMS systems have two parameters.  The
   first parameter is the height of the tree, h, which is the number of
   levels in the tree minus one.  The [HASHSIG] specification supports
   five values for this parameter: h=5; h=10; h=15; h=20; and h=25.
   Note that there are 2^h leaves in the tree.  The second parameter, m,
   is the number of bytes output by the hash function, and it is the
   amount of data associated with each node in the tree.  The [HASHSIG]
   specification supports only the SHA-256 hash function [SHS], with
   m=32.  As a result, the [HASHSIG] specification supports five tree
   sizes; they are identified as:

      LMS_SHA256_M32_H5;
      LMS_SHA256_M32_H10;
      LMS_SHA256_M32_H15;
      LMS_SHA256_M32_H20; and
      LMS_SHA256_M32_H25.

   The [HASHSIG] specification establishes an IANA registry [IANA-LMS]
   to permit the registration of additional hash functions and
   additional tree sizes in the future.

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   As specified in [HASHSIG], the LMS public key consists of four
   elements: the lms_algorithm_type from the list above, the otstype to
   identify the LM-OTS type as discussed in Section 2.3, the private key
   identifier (I) as described in Section 5.3 of [HASHSIG], and the m-
   byte string associated with the root node of the tree (T[1]).

   The LMS public key can be summarized as:

      u32str(lms_algorithm_type) || u32str(otstype) || I || T[1]

   As specified in [HASHSIG], an LMS signature consists of four
   elements: the number of the leaf (q) associated with the LM-OTS
   signature, an LM-OTS signature as described in Section 2.3, a
   typecode indicating the particular LMS algorithm, and an array of
   values that is associated with the path through the tree from the
   leaf associated with the LM-OTS signature to the root.  The array of
   values contains the siblings of the nodes on the path from the leaf
   to the root but does not contain the nodes on the path itself.  The
   array for a tree with height h will have h values.  The first value
   is the sibling of the leaf, the next value is the sibling of the
   parent of the leaf, and so on up the path to the root.

   The four elements of the LMS signature value can be summarized as:

      u32str(q) ||
      ots_signature ||
      u32str(type) ||
      path[0] || path[1] || ... || path[h-1]

2.3.  Leighton-Micali One-time Signature Algorithm (LM-OTS)

   Merkle Tree Signatures (MTS) depend on a one-time signature method,
   and [HASHSIG] specifies the use of the LM-OTS, which has five
   parameters:

      n -  The length in bytes of the hash function output.  [HASHSIG]
           supports only SHA-256 [SHS], with n=32.

      H -  A preimage-resistant hash function that accepts byte strings
           of any length, and returns an n-byte string.

      w -  The width in bits of the Winternitz coefficients.  [HASHSIG]
           supports four values for this parameter: w=1; w=2; w=4; and
           w=8.

      p -  The number of n-byte string elements that make up the LM-OTS
           signature.

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      ls - The number of bits that are left-shifted in the final step of
           the checksum function, which is defined in Section 4.4 of
           [HASHSIG].

   The values of p and ls are dependent on the choices of the parameters
   n and w, as described in Appendix B of [HASHSIG].

   The [HASHSIG] specification supports four LM-OTS variants:

      LMOTS_SHA256_N32_W1;
      LMOTS_SHA256_N32_W2;
      LMOTS_SHA256_N32_W4; and
      LMOTS_SHA256_N32_W8.

   The [HASHSIG] specification establishes an IANA registry [IANA-LMS]
   to permit the registration of additional variants in the future.

   Signing involves the generation of C, an n-byte random value.

   The LM-OTS signature value can be summarized as the identifier of the
   LM-OTS variant, the random value, and a sequence of hash values (y[0]
   through y[p-1]) that correspond to the elements of the public key as
   described in Section 4.5 of [HASHSIG]:

      u32str(otstype) || C || y[0] || ... || y[p-1]

3.  Algorithm Identifiers and Parameters

   The algorithm identifier for an HSS/LMS hash-based signatures is:

      id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1)
          member-body(2) us(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9)
          smime(16) alg(3) 17 }

   When this object identifier is used for an HSS/LMS signature, the
   AlgorithmIdentifier parameters field MUST be absent (that is, the
   parameters are not present; the parameters are not set to NULL).

   The signature value is a large OCTET STRING as described in Section 2
   of this document.  The signature format is designed for easy parsing.
   The HSS, LMS, and LMOTS component of the signature value each format
   include a counter and a type code that indirectly provide all of the
   information that is needed to parse the value during signature
   validation.

   The signature value identifies the hash function used in the HSS/LMS
   tree.  In [HASHSIG] uses only the SHA-256 hash function [SHS], but it
   establishes an IANA registry [IANA-LMS] to permit the registration of

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   additional hash functions in the future.

4.  HSS/LMS Public Key Identifier

   The AlgorithmIdentifier for an HSS/LMS public key uses the id-alg-
   hss-lms-hashsig object identifier, and the parameters field MUST be
   absent.

   When this AlgorithmIdentifier appears in the SubjectPublicKeyInfo
   field of an X.509 certificate [RFC5280], the certificate key usage
   extension MAY contain digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, keyCertSign,
   and cRLSign; however, it MUST NOT contain other values.

      pk-HSS-LMS-HashSig PUBLIC-KEY ::= {
          IDENTIFIER id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig
          KEY HSS-LMS-HashSig-PublicKey
          PARAMS ARE absent
          CERT-KEY-USAGE
            { digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, keyCertSign, cRLSign } }

      HSS-LMS-HashSig-PublicKey ::= OCTET STRING

   Note that the id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig algorithm identifier is also
   referred to as id-alg-mts-hashsig.  This synonym is based on the
   terminology used in an early draft of the document that became
   [HASHSIG].

   The public key value is an OCTET STRING.  Like the signature format,
   it is designed for easy parsing.  The value is the number of levels
   in the public key, L, followed by the LMS public key.

   The HSS/LMS public key value can be described as:

      u32str(L) || lms_public_key

   Note that the public key for the top-most LMS tree is the public key
   of the HSS system.  When L=1, the HSS system is a single tree.

5.  Signed-data Conventions

   As specified in [CMS], the digital signature is produced from the
   message digest and the signer's private key.  The signature is
   computed over different values depending on whether signed attributes
   are absent or present.

   When signed attributes are absent, the HSS/LMS signature is computed
   over the content.  When signed attributes are present, a hash is
   computed over the content using the same hash function that is used

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   in the HSS/LMS tree, and then a message-digest attribute is
   constructed with the hash of the content, and then the HSS/LMS
   signature is computed over the DER-encoded set of signed attributes
   (which MUST include a content-type attribute and a message-digest
   attribute).  In summary:

      IF (signed attributes are absent)
      THEN HSS_LMS_Sign(content)
      ELSE message-digest attribute = Hash(content);
           HSS_LMS_Sign(DER(SignedAttributes))

   When using [HASHSIG], the fields in the SignerInfo are used as
   follows:

      digestAlgorithm MUST contain the one-way hash function used in the
         HSS/LMS tree.  In [HASHSIG], SHA-256 is the only supported hash
         function, but other hash functions might be registered in the
         future.  For convenience, the AlgorithmIdentifier for SHA-256
         from [PKIXASN1] is repeated here:

            mda-sha256 DIGEST-ALGORITHM ::= {
                IDENTIFIER id-sha256
                PARAMS TYPE NULL ARE preferredAbsent }

            id-sha256 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { joint-iso-itu-t(2)
                country(16) us(840) organization(1) gov(101) csor(3)
                nistAlgorithms(4) hashalgs(2) 1 }

      signatureAlgorithm MUST contain id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig, and the
         algorithm parameters field MUST be absent.

      signature contains the single HSS signature value resulting from
         the signing operation as specified in [HASHSIG].

6.  Security Considerations

   Implementations MUST protect the private keys.  Compromise of the
   private keys may result in the ability to forge signatures.  Along
   with the private key, the implementation MUST keep track of which
   leaf nodes in the tree have been used.  Loss of integrity of this
   tracking data can cause a one-time key to be used more than once.  As
   a result, when a private key and the tracking data are stored on non-
   volatile media or stored in a virtual machine environment, failed
   writes, virtual machine snapshotting or cloning, and other
   operational concerns must be considered to ensure confidentiality and
   integrity.

   When generating an LMS key pair, an implementation MUST generate each

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   key pair independently of all other key pairs in the HSS tree.

   An implementation MUST ensure that a LM-OTS private key is used to
   generate a signature only one time, and ensure that it cannot be used
   for any other purpose.

   The generation of private keys relies on random numbers.  The use of
   inadequate pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) to generate these
   values can result in little or no security.  An attacker may find it
   much easier to reproduce the PRNG environment that produced the keys,
   searching the resulting small set of possibilities, rather than brute
   force searching the whole key space.  The generation of quality
   random numbers is difficult, and [RFC4086] offers important guidance
   in this area.

   The generation of hash-based signatures also depends on random
   numbers.  While the consequences of an inadequate pseudo-random
   number generator (PRNG) to generate these values is much less severe
   than in the generation of private keys, the guidance in [RFC4086]
   remains important.

   When computing signatures, the same hash function SHOULD be used to
   compute the message digest of the content and the signed attributes,
   if they are present.

7.  IANA Considerations

   SMI Security for S/MIME Module Identifier (1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.0)
   registry, change the reference for value 64 to point to this
   document.

   In the SMI Security for S/MIME Algorithms (1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.3)
   registry, change the description for value 17 to
   "id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig" and change the reference to point to this
   document.

   Also, add the following note to the registry:

      Value 17, "id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig", is also referred to as
      "id-alg-mts-hashsig".

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

   [ASN1-B]   ITU-T, "Information technology -- Abstract Syntax Notation
              One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation", ITU-T
              Recommendation X.680, 2015.

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   [ASN1-E]   ITU-T, "Information technology -- ASN.1 encoding rules:
              Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical
              Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules
              (DER)", ITU-T Recommendation X.690, 2015.

   [CMS]      Housley, R., "Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", STD 70,
              RFC 5652, DOI 10.17487/RFC5652, September 2009,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5652>.

   [HASHSIG]  McGrew, D., Curcio, M., and S. Fluhrer, "Leighton-Micali
              Hash-Based Signatures", RFC 8554, April 2019,
              <https://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8554.txt>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI
              10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC5280]  Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
              (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in
              RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI
              10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, <https://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [SHS]      National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
              FIPS Publication 180-3: Secure Hash Standard, October
              2008.

8.2.  Informative References

   [BH2013]   Ptacek, T., T. Ritter, J. Samuel, and A. Stamos, "The
              Factoring Dead: Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse", August
              2013.  <https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/us-13-Stamos-The-
              Factoring-Dead.pdf>

   [CMSASN1]  Hoffman, P. and J. Schaad, "New ASN.1 Modules for
              Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) and S/MIME", RFC 5911,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5911, June 2010, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc5911>.

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   [CMSASN1U] Schaad, J. and S. Turner, "Additional New ASN.1 Modules
              for the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) and the Public
              Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)", RFC 6268, DOI
              10.17487/RFC6268, July 2011, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc6268>.

   [FWPROT]   Housley, R., "Using Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) to
              Protect Firmware Packages", RFC 4108, DOI
              10.17487/RFC4108, August 2005, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc4108>.

   [IANA-LMS] IANA Registry for Leighton-Micali Signatures (LMS).
              <https://www.iana.org/assignments/leighton-micali-
              signatures/leighton-micali-signatures.xhtml>.

   [LM]       Leighton, T. and S. Micali, "Large provably fast and
              secure digital signature schemes from secure hash
              functions", U.S. Patent 5,432,852, July 1995.

   [M1979]    Merkle, R., "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key
              Systems", Stanford University Information Systems
              Laboratory Technical Report 1979-1, 1979.

   [M1987]    Merkle, R., "A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional
              Encryption Function", Lecture Notes in Computer Science
              crypto87, 1988.

   [M1989a]   Merkle, R., "A Certified Digital Signature", Lecture Notes
              in Computer Science crypto89, 1990.

   [M1989b]  Merkle, R., "One Way Hash Functions and DES", Lecture Notes
              in Computer Science crypto89, 1990.

   [NAS2019] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,
              "Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects", The National
              Academies Press, DOI 10.17226/25196, 2019.

   [PKIXASN1] Hoffman, P. and J. Schaad, "New ASN.1 Modules for the
              Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)", RFC 5912,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5912, June 2010, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc5912>.

   [PQC]      Bernstein, D., "Introduction to post-quantum
              cryptography", 2009.
              <http://www.pqcrypto.org/www.springer.com/cda/content/
              document/cda_downloaddocument/9783540887010-c1.pdf>

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   [RFC4086]   Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
              "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc4086>.

Appendix: ASN.1 Module

   <CODE STARTS>

   MTS-HashSig-2013
     { iso(1) member-body(2) us(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9)
       id-smime(16) id-mod(0) id-mod-mts-hashsig-2013(64) }

   DEFINITIONS IMPLICIT TAGS ::= BEGIN

   EXPORTS ALL;

   IMPORTS
     PUBLIC-KEY, SIGNATURE-ALGORITHM, SMIME-CAPS
       FROM AlgorithmInformation-2009  -- RFC 5911 [CMSASN1]
         { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1)
           security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0)
           id-mod-algorithmInformation-02(58) } ;

   --
   -- Object Identifiers
   --

   id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1)
       member-body(2) us(840) rsadsi(113549) pkcs(1) pkcs9(9)
       smime(16) alg(3) 17 }

   id-alg-mts-hashsig OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig

   --
   -- Signature Algorithm and Public Key
   --

   sa-HSS-LMS-HashSig SIGNATURE-ALGORITHM ::= {
       IDENTIFIER id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig
       PARAMS ARE absent
       PUBLIC-KEYS { pk-HSS-LMS-HashSig }
       SMIME-CAPS { IDENTIFIED BY id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig } }

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   pk-HSS-LMS-HashSig PUBLIC-KEY ::= {
       IDENTIFIER id-alg-hss-lms-hashsig
       KEY HSS-LMS-HashSig-PublicKey
       PARAMS ARE absent
       CERT-KEY-USAGE
           { digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, keyCertSign, cRLSign } }

   HSS-LMS-HashSig-PublicKey ::= OCTET STRING

   --
   -- Expand the signature algorithm set used by CMS [CMSASN1U]
   --

   SignatureAlgorithmSet SIGNATURE-ALGORITHM ::=
       { sa-HSS-LMS-HashSig, ... }

   --
   -- Expand the S/MIME capabilities set used by CMS [CMSASN1]
   --

   SMimeCaps SMIME-CAPS ::=
       { sa-HSS-LMS-HashSig.&smimeCaps, ... }

   END

   <CODE ENDS>

Acknowledgements

   Many thanks to Scott Fluhrer, Jonathan Hammell, Ben Kaduk, Panos
   Kampanakis, Barry Leiba, John Mattsson, Jim Schaad, Sean Turner,
   Daniel Van Geest, Roman Danyliw, Dale Worley, and Joe Clarke for
   their careful review and comments.

Author's Address

   Russ Housley
   Vigil Security, LLC
   516 Dranesville Road
   Herndon, VA 20170
   USA

   EMail: housley@vigilsec.com

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