🧰 SHA-256

The items that name it 8

• A Kelsey–Kohno Attack Variant against SHA-2 Message Digests in HSS/LMS and XMSS
  paperas affected products2026-10-25It is written here as SHA-256 (chaining state narrower than twice the targeted security level).

  chaining state narrower than twice the targeted security level

• Provable Security of SHA-256-Based LMS Revisited in the Ideal-Cipher Model
  paperas classification.technologies2026-10-24
• Faster, Aggregatable and Quantum Safe Privacy Pools
  articleas classification.technologies2026-10-19
• Crypto's Quantum Defense Is Being Built in the Open
  articleas affected products2026-10-14It is written here as SHA-256 (hash function securing Bitcoin; accepted HashSmash attacks so far only target simplified versions, not the complete algorithm).

  hash function securing Bitcoin; accepted HashSmash attacks so far only target simplified versions, not the complete algorithm

• ERC-8441: Hybrid post-quantum stealth address scheme
  threadas tools2026-10-09

  Used via separate domain-separated digests of ss to derive the stealth address offset and the view tag.

• K-LMS: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Leighton–Micali Signatures with Korean Cryptographic Primitives
  paperas tools2026-10-06

  Baseline hash function (software and hardware-accelerated variants) used for comparison against LSH-256 in K-LMS performance evaluation

• SequenceHash: multihashing for the rest of us
  writeupas affected products2026-10-02It is written here as SHA256.

  Hash function; vulnerable to length extension attacks; limited to 2^61 bytes of input

• PQ spending for Stealth Address Protocol
  articleas tools2026-09-28

  Hash function used (with distinct domain tags) to instantiate H_key, H_pay, and H_auth in the HSAP construction