Extension of Overbeck's Attack for Gabidulin Based Cryptosystems
Cryptography and Security
2016-01-05 v2 Information Theory
math.IT
Abstract
We present a new attack against cryptosystems based on the rank metric. Our attack allows us to cryptanalyze two variants of the GPT cryptosystem which were designed to resist the attack of Overbeck.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.01549,
title = {Extension of Overbeck's Attack for Gabidulin Based Cryptosystems},
author = {Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann and Kyle Marshall and Joachim Rosenthal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.01549},
year = {2016}
}