Post-quantum signatures have to work for low-power hardware wallets, miners, Lightning nodes and every node verifying blocks.
Jonas Nick of Blockstream Research at Lugano Plan B on how SHRINCS balances signature size against those needs.
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Searching for SHRINCS Parameters:
https://blog.blockstream.com/searching-for-shrincs-parameters/
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