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It is widely accepted that quantum error correction is essential for realizing large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. Recent experiments have demonstrated error correction codes operating below threshold, primarily using local planar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Eliška Greplová

We consider automorphism ensemble decoding (AED) of quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Belief propagation (BP) decoding on the conventional factor graph is equivariant to the quasi-cyclic automorphisms and therefore…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Marvin Geiselhart , Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Jannis Clausius , Stephan ten Brink

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer a promising route to scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation, but their performance under iterative decoding is strongly influenced by short-cycle structure and other harmful…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anthony Gómez-Fonseca , Gretchen L. Matthews , Kirsten D. Morris , Tefjol Pllaha

In this paper, we investigate twisted Gabidulin codes in the GPT code-based public-key cryptosystem. We show that Overbeck's attack is not feasible for a subfamily of twisted Gabidulin codes. The resulting key sizes are significantly lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Sven Puchinger , Julian Renner , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We construct a family of quantum low-density parity-check codes locally equivalent to higher-dimensional quantum hypergraph-product (QHP) codes. Similarly to QHP codes, the proposed codes have highly redundant sets of low-weight stabilizer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Hsiang-Ku Lin , Pak Kau Lim , Alexey A. Kovalev , Leonid P. Pryadko

In this paper, we define and discuss {\phi}-cyclic code, which may be regarded as a general form of the ordinary cyclic code. As applications, we explain how to extend two public key encryption schemes, one is McEliece and Niederriter's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Zhiyong Zheng , Wenlin Huang , Jie Xu , Kun Tian

In recent years, there have been many studies on quantum computing and the construction of quantum computers which are capable of breaking conventional number theory-based public key cryptosystems. Therefore, in the not-too-distant future,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Reza Hooshmand , Farhad Naserizadeh , Jalil Mazloum

This paper gives the definition and property of a bit-pair shadow, and devises the three algorithms of a public key cryptoscheme called JUOAN that is based on a multivariate permutation problem and an anomalous subset product problem to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Shenghui Su , Shuwang Lu , Maozhi Xu , Tao Xie

This paper introduces a novel approach to enumerate and assess Trapping sets in quasi-cyclic codes, those with circulant sizes that are non-prime numbers. Leveraging the quasi-cyclic properties, the method employs a tabular technique to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Vasiliy Usatyuk , Yury Kuznetsov , Sergey Egorov

We propose a novel approach to improving software security called Cryptographic Path Hardening, which is aimed at hiding security vulnerabilities in software from attackers through the use of provably secure and obfuscated cryptographic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Vijay Ganesh , Michael Carbin , Martin Rinard

Pseudorandom error-correcting codes (PRC) is a novel cryptographic primitive proposed at CRYPTO 2024. Due to the dual capability of pseudorandomness and error correction, PRC has been recognized as a promising foundational component for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tianrui Wang , Anyu Wang , Tianshuo Cong , Delong Ran , Jinyuan Liu , Xiaoyun Wang

The braid group is an important non commutative group, at the same time, it is an important tool in quantum field theory with better topological structure, and often used as a research carrier for anti-quantum cryptographic algorithms. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Xiaoming Chen , Weiqing You , Meng Jiao , Kejun Zhang , Shuang Qing , Zhiqiang Wang

A class of linear codes that extends classic Goppa codes to a non-commutative context is defined. An efficient decoding algorithm, based on the solution of a non-commutative key equation, is designed. We show how the parameters of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 José Gómez-Torrecillas , F. J. Lobillo , Gabriel Navarro

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their high encoding rates and distances. However, implementing logical operations using qLDPC codes presents significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ze-Chuan Liu , Chong-Yuan Xu , Yong Xu

The security of code-based cryptosystems such as the McEliece cryptosystem relies primarily on the difficulty of decoding random linear codes. The best decoding algorithms are all improvements of an old algorithm due to Prange: they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Ghazal Kachigar , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for estimating integrals are attractive since the resulting estimators typically converge at a faster rate than pseudo-random Monte Carlo. However, they can be difficult to set up on arbitrary posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Tobias Schwedes , Ben Calderhead

Fairly recently, a new encryption scheme for embedded systems based on continuous third-order hyperbolic sine chaotic system was proposed by Z. Lin et al. The cryptosystem's main objective is to provide a faster algorithm with lowest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Imad El Hanouti , Hakim El Fadili , Khalid Zenkouar

Quasi-polycyclic (QP for short) codes over a finite chain ring $R$ are a generalization of quasi-cyclic codes, and these codes can be viewed as an $R[x]$-submodule of $\mathcal{R}_m^{\ell}$, where $\mathcal{R}_m:= R[x]/\langle f\rangle$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Rongsheng Wu , Minjia Shi , Patrick Solé

The HQC encryption framework is a general code-based encryption scheme for which decryption returns a noisy version of the plaintext. Any instantiation of the scheme will therefore use an error-correcting procedure relying on a fixed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Nicolas Aragon , Philippe Gaborit , Gilles Zémor

Identifying the best families of quantum error correction (QEC) codes for near-term experiments is key to enabling fault-tolerant quantum computing. Ideally, such codes should have low overhead in qubit number, high physical error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Laura Pecorari , Guido Pupillo