insight to get smaller sigs is to realize that the default params targeting 2^64 possible sigs is overly conservative (see: eprint.iacr.org/2024/018/), especially in Bitcoin for a single key, LN channels maybe need 10s of millions of sigs, but normal addr re-use isn't _that_ bad

so we can target a smaller amt for max amt of sigs for a single key + tune other params to trade off slightly slower sig generation (validation is still fast), for smaller sigs if you breach that max amt target, security degrades (128-bit -> 112-bit) but doesn't insta break

so possible to arrive at a range of params w/ sigs smaller or at par w/ ML-DSA (lattice based sig), w/ smaller private+public keys: * SLH-DSA: 32-byte pub keys, 64-byte priv keys * ML-DSA: 2KB+ priv keys, 1KB+ pub keys tradeoff is no extra structure to do fancy crypto

less flexible, but more conservative Bitcoin already uses sha2 everywhere all sigs has a hash function somewhere no new crypto assumptions (1st or 2nd preimage resistance, etc) introduced, doing a ton of hashes is fast, especially w/ vectorized inst + hardware acceleration

cooking up some code+specs 😈 not too interested in the political question of if coins should be frozen/seized, etc, etc imo that breaks a fundamental tenant of Bitcoin, we MUST resist groups trying coordinate to effectively redistribute wealth value loss from that > PQ break

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