Signature Verification
The receiver knows the public key, the message, and the signature . At first, the receiver verifies the one-time signature of the message . If is a valid signature of, the receiver computes by hashing the public key of the one-time signature. For, the nodes of of the path are computed with . If equals the public key of the merkle signature scheme, the signature is valid.
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