Comment Comment by EGreg For those here who don’t knowSPHINCS is essentially Lamport Signatures and SPHINCS+ is essentially removing the need to store “state” by using chains of hashes and a random oraclehttps://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/54304/difference-...I prefer tham to lattice-based methods because it seems to me that cryptographic hashes (and other trapdoor functions) are more likely to be quantum-resistant than lattices (for which an algorithm like Shor’s algorithm merely hasn’t been found yet). parent EGreg 2 years ago
SPHINCS is essentially Lamport Signatures and SPHINCS+ is essentially removing the need to store “state” by using chains of hashes and a random oracle
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/54304/difference-...
I prefer tham to lattice-based methods because it seems to me that cryptographic hashes (and other trapdoor functions) are more likely to be quantum-resistant than lattices (for which an algorithm like Shor’s algorithm merely hasn’t been found yet).