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Use of the HSS and XMSS Hash-Based Signature Algorithms in Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs-13

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, debcooley1@gmail.com, draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs@ietf.org, housley@vigilsec.com, lamps-chairs@ietf.org, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, spasm@ietf.org
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Use of the HSS and XMSS Hash-Based Signature Algorithms in Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs-13.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Use of the HSS and XMSS Hash-Based Signature Algorithms in Internet
   X.509 Public Key Infrastructure'
  (draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs-13.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX
and SMIME Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Paul Wouters and Deb Cooley.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-x509-shbs/


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Technical Summary

   This document specifies algorithm identifiers and ASN.1 encoding
   formats for the stateful hash-based signature (HBS) schemes
   Hierarchical Signature System (HSS), eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme
   (XMSS), and XMSS^MT, a multi-tree variant of XMSS.  This
   specification applies to the Internet X.509 Public Key infrastructure
   (PKI) when those digital signatures are used in Internet X.509
   certificates and certificate revocation lists.

Working Group Summary

   There is support in the LAMPS WG for this document.  All comments that
   were raised during WG Last Call were resolved. There was little controversy,
   and suggested improvements were readily accepted by the authors.

Document Quality

   The ASN.1 module compiles without errors.
   This document specified the conventions for using the HSS/LMS, XMSS, and
   XMSS^MT signature algorithms in X.509 certificates.  HSS/LMS is specified
   in RFC 8554, which is already in the downref registry.  XMSS and XMSS^MT
   are specified in RFC 8391, which is not yet in the downref registry.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Russ Housley. The Responsible
   Area Director is Deb Cooley.

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