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SSH XMSS keypair generation and best practices

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SSH XMSS keypair generation and best practices

In a recent ssh -vv output, I saw OpenSSH mentioning a private key file id_xmss.

XMSS is defined in RFC 8391, "XMSS: eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme", May 2018.

OpenSSH has experimental support for XMSS since version 7.7 (2018-04-02).

  • How do I generate an XMSS keypair? With OpenSSH?
  • What are best practices for key generation parameters?