Citations

This page collects primary sources used across the docs. Protocol pages should prefer source-specific citations where a claim depends on a standard, paper, or repo file.

NIST Standards and Publications

• NIST FIPS 203, Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard, August 13, 2024. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/203/final 
• NIST FIPS 204, Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard, August 13, 2024. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final 
• NIST FIPS 205, Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard, August 13, 2024. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/205/final 
• NIST FIPS 206 / FN-DSA public status material. https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2025/fips-206-fn-dsa-falcon 
• NIST FIPS 180-4, Secure Hash Standard. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/180-4/upd1/final 
• NIST IR 8547, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards. https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/ir/8547/ipd 
• NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography project. https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography 

Primary Research

• Shor, P. “Algorithms for Quantum Computation: Discrete Logarithms and Factoring.” FOCS 1994.
• Hoffstein, Pipher, Silverman. “NTRU: A Ring-Based Public Key Cryptosystem.” ANTS-III 1998.
• Gentry, Peikert, Vaikuntanathan. “Trapdoors for Hard Lattices and New Cryptographic Constructions.” STOC 2008.
• Lyubashevsky. “Fiat-Shamir with Aborts: Applications to Lattice and Factoring-Based Signatures.” ASIACRYPT 2009.
• Alwen, Chen, Pietrzak, Reyzin, Tessaro. “Scrypt Is Maximally Memory-Hard.” EUROCRYPT 2017.
• Percival, C. “Stronger Key Derivation via Sequential Memory-Hard Functions.” BSDCan 2009. https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html 
• RFC 7914, The scrypt Password-Based Key Derivation Function. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7914.html 
• Solar Designer. Yespower. https://www.openwall.com/yespower/ 
• Falcon specification. https://falcon-sign.info/ 
• PQClean. https://github.com/PQClean/PQClean 

Blockchain and Industry Sources

• Federal Reserve FEDS 2025-093, “Harvest Now Decrypt Later: Examining Post-Quantum Cryptography and the Data Privacy Risks for Distributed Ledger Networks.” https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/harvest-now-decrypt-later-examining-post-quantum-cryptography-and-the-data-privacy-risks-for-distributed-ledger-networks.htm 
• Bitcoin BIP 360, Pay-to-Merkle-Root. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0360.mediawiki 
• QRL documentation. https://docs.theqrl.org/ 
• Algorand state proofs. https://developer.algorand.org/docs/get-details/stateproofs/ 
• Algorand Falcon specification. https://specs.algorand.co/crypto/crypto-falcon 

Tidecoin Sources

• Tidecoin Core source. https://github.com/tidecoin/tidecoin 
• Tidecoin whitepaper. Whitepaper
• Tidecoin changelog. ../tidecoin/CHANGELOG.md
• Tidecoin security policy. ../tidecoin/SECURITY.md
• Tidecoin release process. ../tidecoin/doc/release-process.md
• Tidecoin REST interface. ../tidecoin/doc/REST-interface.md
• Tidecoin ZMQ interface. ../tidecoin/doc/zmq.md
• Tidecoin configuration reference. ../tidecoin/doc/tidecoin-conf.md

See also: Whitepaper, References / LLM Facts, Protocol.