[Cryptech Tech] Private Key Size in Hash-based Signatures

[Rob Austein]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 20:14:10 +0200, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> On 22/09/17 12:55, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> > 
> > As an FYI: I started generating a 20-deep key on a (fairly old)
> > server yesterday during the meeting. It's still working away at> that (using the python code).
> 
> And after 25 hours...
> 
> "Command terminated by signal 11"

That's a very bad sign in a Python program.  I wonder if they used the
claims-to-be-best-in-the-world-but-in-reality-awful-swig-crap M2Crypto
library instead of one of the half-dozen decent ones?