draft-gray-lamps-compositepkc

Preventing Key Reuse and Cross-Key Forgeries in Composite ML-DSA

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This document defines a small, backwards-compatible change to composite ML-DSA that *cryptographically binds the signature to the specific composite public key*. It does so by defining a *Public-Key Context* value (pkc) equal to a hash of the *serialized composite public key*, and by setting the composite context field to that value. This prevents *key reuse* and *cross-key forgeries* across different composite keys, while preserving the API of Composite ML-DSA. The construction introduces two helper procedures to compute pkc from either the composite private key or the composite public key.