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Decode FORS indices similarly to WOTS - #1839

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Decode FORS indices similarly to WOTS#1839
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@GillonB GillonB commented Jul 10, 2024

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Update the decoding of the FORS indices as proposed by latest NIST changes. This has already been proposed in the sphincsplus repo (sphincs/sphincsplus#51). Would be good to have the same for liboqs as this change will eventually land. https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/88tuvtb7nN4/m/DA1QCoJWBAAJ

  • This changes breaks SPHINCS+ signature compatibility: Signatures generated before cannot be verified correctly with the implementation after this change. Also old implementation cannot verify correctly newly generate signatures.
  • No change to available algorithms

relates to #1838

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GillonB requested a review from dstebila as a code owner July 10, 2024 10:10
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GillonB marked this pull request as draft July 10, 2024 10:24
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Because we're pulling out SPHINCS+ implementation from PQClean, we'd prefer to see this change made first in PQClean, and then our automated scripts can pull it in. Would you be able to do that?

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Closing due to inactivity. Additionally, rather than updating the SPHINCS+ code in place, we will presumably be replacing it with the final version of SLH-DSA whenever it lands upstream.

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