name: LMS
type: stateful signature
principal-submitters:
- Scott Fluhrer
auxiliary-submitters:
- C Martin
- Maurice Hieronymus

crypto-assumption: hash-based signatures
website: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8554
nist-round: 
standardization-status: Standardized by [IRTF](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8554), approved by [NIST](https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-208.pdf)
spec-version: 
spdx-license-identifier: 
primary-upstream:
  source: https://github.com/cisco/hash-sigs
  spdx-license-identifier: MIT
  upstream-ancestors:
parameter-sets:
- name: LMS_SHA256_H5_W1
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 8688
- name: LMS_SHA256_H5_W2
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 4464
- name: LMS_SHA256_H5_W4
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2352
- name: LMS_SHA256_H5_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 1296
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W1
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 8848
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W2
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 4624
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W4
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2512
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 1456
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W1
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 9008
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W2
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 4784
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W4
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2672
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 1616
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W1
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 9168
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W2
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 4944
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W4
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2832
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 1776
- name: LMS_SHA256_H25_W1
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 9328
- name: LMS_SHA256_H25_W2
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 5104
- name: LMS_SHA256_H25_W4
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2992
- name: LMS_SHA256_H25_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 1936
- name: LMS_SHA256_H5_W8_H5_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2644
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W4_H5_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2804
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W8_H5_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3860
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W2_H10_W2
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 9300
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W4_H10_W4
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 5076
- name: LMS_SHA256_H10_W8_H10_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2964
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W8_H5_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 2964
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W8_H10_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3124
- name: LMS_SHA256_H15_W8_H15_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3284
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W8_H5_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3124
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W8_H10_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3284
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W8_H15_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3444
- name: LMS_SHA256_H20_W8_H20_W8
  claimed-nist-level: 
  claimed-security: 
  length-public-key: 60
  length-secret-key: 64
  length-signature: 3604