{
  "title": "Reference evidence for a Layer-1 decision; no runtime or matched-security benchmark",
  "article": "https://synxcrypto.com/sphincs-plus-vs-dilithium-layer-1#comparison-table",
  "reviewed": "2026-09-21",
  "scope": "Editorial reference table; not a SYNX laboratory measurement. Preserve qualifiers in each row.",
  "columns": [
    "Reference",
    "Security basis",
    "Parameter scope",
    "Public evidence used here",
    "Layer-1 check"
  ],
  "rows": [
    [
      "Pinned SPHINCS+-SHAKE-128s",
      "Stateless hash-based",
      "The 128s variant",
      "7,856-byte signature; 32-byte public key; 64-byte secret key.",
      "Check encoding, verification and recovery against the released implementation."
    ],
    [
      "ML-DSA, derived from Dilithium",
      "Module-lattice",
      "ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87",
      "FIPS 204 defines key generation, signing and verification.",
      "Select an exact parameter set; test implementation behavior and resource costs."
    ]
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final",
      "label": "NIST FIPS 204: ML-DSA standard and current errata notice"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/205/final",
      "label": "NIST FIPS 205: SLH-DSA and its SPHINCS+ basis"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-first-3-finalized-post-quantum-encryption-standards",
      "label": "NIST standards announcement: CRYSTALS-Dilithium to ML-DSA"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sphincs/sphincsplus/7ec789ace6874d875f4bb84cb61b81155398167e/README.md",
      "label": "SPHINCS+ revision 7ec789a: 128s raw parameter sizes"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://synxcrypto.com/whitepaper.php",
      "label": "SYNX whitepaper: stated SPHINCS+-SHAKE-128s/Kyber-768 roles"
    }
  ]
}