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An efficient structural attack on NIST submission DAGS

Cryptography and Security 2018-09-24 v2 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We present an efficient key recovery attack on code based encryption schemes using some quasi-dyadic alternant codes with extension degree 2. This attack permits to break the proposal DAGS recently submitted to NIST.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1805.05429,
  title  = {An efficient structural attack on NIST submission DAGS},
  author = {Elise Barelli and Alain Couvreur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.05429},
  year   = {2018}
}
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