McNie: A code-based public-key cryptosystem
Cryptography and Security
2019-01-29 v2
Abstract
In this paper, we suggest a code-based public key encryption scheme, called McNie. McNie is a hybrid version of the McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems and its security is reduced to the hard problem of syndrome decoding. The public key involves a random generator matrix which is also used to mask the code used in the secret key. This makes the system safer against known structural attacks. In particular, we apply rank-metric codes to McNie.
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@article{arxiv.1812.05008,
title = {McNie: A code-based public-key cryptosystem},
author = {Jon-Lark Kim and Young-Sik Kim and Lucky Galvez and Myeong Jae Kim and Nari Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05008},
year = {2019}
}