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Vol. 1 · Ed. 2026
CyberGlossary
Entry № 1166

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) とは何ですか?

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205)NIST's standardized stateless hash-based post-quantum signature scheme, derived from SPHINCS+ and published as FIPS 205 in August 2024 — the conservative PQ signature option, relying only on hash-function security.


SLH-DSA (Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm), published as FIPS 205 on 13 August 2024, is NIST's conservative post-quantum signature standard, derived from SPHINCS+ . Unlike ML-DSA, which rests on lattice-problem assumptions, SLH-DSA's security depends solely on the properties of its underlying hash function (SHA-256 or SHAKE-256), giving it the strongest theoretical conservatism in the NIST PQC portfolio. The price is size and speed: SLH-DSA signatures range from about 8 KB to 50 KB depending on parameter set (small, fast, robust variants in 128, 192, and 256-bit categories), and signing is markedly slower than ML-DSA. That makes SLH-DSA well suited to use cases where signature size and signing throughput are secondary to long-term resilience and minimal assumption count — root-of-trust signatures, long-lived firmware keys, and certificates that may need to remain trustworthy decades from now. SLH-DSA is 'stateless', a major operational improvement over the stateful XMSS and LMS hash-based signatures, since the signer doesn't need to track which one-time keys have been used.

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    A nation-state root CA issues its top-level signing certificate with SLH-DSA-SHA2-256s to maximise resilience across the certificate's planned 30-year lifetime.

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    A secure-boot ROM key uses SLH-DSA so that even if every lattice and elliptic-curve assumption breaks, the signature still verifies.

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SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) とは何ですか?

NIST's standardized stateless hash-based post-quantum signature scheme, derived from SPHINCS+ and published as FIPS 205 in August 2024 — the conservative PQ signature option, relying only on hash-function security. サイバーセキュリティの 暗号 カテゴリに属します。

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) とはどういう意味ですか?

NIST's standardized stateless hash-based post-quantum signature scheme, derived from SPHINCS+ and published as FIPS 205 in August 2024 — the conservative PQ signature option, relying only on hash-function security.

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) はどのように機能しますか?

SLH-DSA (Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm), published as FIPS 205 on 13 August 2024, is NIST's conservative post-quantum signature standard, derived from SPHINCS+ . Unlike ML-DSA, which rests on lattice-problem assumptions, SLH-DSA's security depends solely on the properties of its underlying hash function (SHA-256 or SHAKE-256), giving it the strongest theoretical conservatism in the NIST PQC portfolio. The price is size and speed: SLH-DSA signatures range from about 8 KB to 50 KB depending on parameter set (small, fast, robust variants in 128, 192, and 256-bit categories), and signing is markedly slower than ML-DSA. That makes SLH-DSA well suited to use cases where signature size and signing throughput are secondary to long-term resilience and minimal assumption count — root-of-trust signatures, long-lived firmware keys, and certificates that may need to remain trustworthy decades from now. SLH-DSA is 'stateless', a major operational improvement over the stateful XMSS and LMS hash-based signatures, since the signer doesn't need to track which one-time keys have been used.

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) からどのように防御しますか?

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) に対する防御は通常、上記の定義で述べたとおり、技術的統制と運用上の実践を組み合わせます。

SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) の別名は何ですか?

一般的な別名: FIPS 205, SPHINCS+ (standardized), Stateless hash-based DSA。

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