Advantages
- Maximizes key reuse, enabling over one million efficient post-quantum signatures
- Ultra-fast signing—up to 2463× faster than NIST PQ alternatives on ARM
- Uses only 1.4KB signer memory, ideal for low-end embedded IoT devices
- Sub-kilobyte signature size minimizes transmission energy in constrained IoT networks
Summary
The explosive growth of IoT devices from wearables to industrial sensors has created an urgent demand for secure scalable authentication. However most conventional and NIST approved post quantum signature schemes are too slow too large or too power hungry for deployment on resource limited hardware resulting in wasted key material reduced device lifespan and costly performance tradeoffs.
MUM HORS addresses this with a lightweight hash-based signature scheme tailored for constrained environments. It delivers compact post quantum signatures, achieves complete key utilization, and supports over one million authentications per key. Verified on embedded and commodity devices MUM HORS outperforms NIST PQ standards up to 2463 times in signing speed offering a practical future ready solution for secure IoT at scale.
MUM-HORS system model for a resource-limited wearable Medical IoT use-case.
Desired Partnerships
- License
- Sponsored Research
- Co-Development