Recently, we announced our optimization work on ML-DSA that leverages the BLAKE3 hash function for internal calls (ML-DSA-B)
A similar approach for SLH-DSA (SLH-DSA-B) yields 15-18% faster signatures & 5-15% faster verification
SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) is a hash-based post-quantum signature scheme based on SPHINCS+. It has two variants: one using SHA-256 and one using SHAKE.
We replace those with BLAKE3 and call the new scheme SLH-DSA-B.