slh-dsa-botan3 0.1.0

FIPS-205 SLH-DSA bindings for botan3

FIPS-205 SLH-DSA bindings for botan3

The botan cryptographic library implements NIST's FIP-205 SLH-DSA signature algorithm, using the botan3 python bindings.

This wraps these bindings to help usage of SLH-DSA in python:

from slh_dsa_botan3 import slh_params

slh_dsa = slh_params()

private_key = slh_dsa.generate_keypair()
public_key = private_key.get_public_key()

message = "hello world"
signature = private_key.sign(message)

assert public_key.verify(message, signature)

Quick setup

You need a working botan3 installation:

% botan --version
3.7.1

You may need to install python3-botan depending on your distribution:

% python -c 'import botan3; print(botan3.version_string())'
Botan 3.7.1 (release, dated 20250205, revision git:09cc7f97ceb828c19461b2a63f820d3226bb921b, distribution unspecified)

It is recommended to work in a virtual environment as follows:

% python3 -m venv --system-site-packages botan3 venv
% source venv/bin/activate

You can then install slh_dsa_botan3 using the following:

% pip install slh_dsa_botan3

Note that this is still experimental and may include mistakes, use with care!