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I’m a little unclear as to what you mean. Winternitz (W-OTS) is a hash-based digital signature scheme. ChaCha is a stream cipher for symmetric encryption. Do yo
by dsacco 9y ago
I’m a little unclear as to what you mean. Winternitz (W-OTS) is a hash-based digital signature scheme. ChaCha is a stream cipher for symmetric encryption. Do you mean a Winternitz signature digest encrypted with ChaCha, or are you proposing a ChaCha derivative hash function, like Blake?
In either case, I don’t see what it gets you to use the post-quantum signatures anyway, then add the overhead of ChaCha.