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The advent of quantum computing poses a critical threat to RSA cryptography, as Shor's algorithm can factor integers in polynomial time. While post-quantum cryptography standards offer long-term solutions, their deployment faces significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ruopengyu Xu , Chenglian Liu

Confidentiality in our digital world is based on the security of cryptographic algorithms. These are usually executed transparently in the background, with people often relying on them without further knowledge. In the course of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Peter Hillmann

In 1994, P. Shor discovered quantum algorithms which can break both the RSA cryptosystem and the ElGamal cryptosystem. In 2007, D-Wave demonstrated the first quantum computer. These events and further developments have brought a crisis to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Chuanming Zong

Nowadays, predominant asymmetric cryptographic schemes are considered to be secure because discrete logarithms are believed to be hard to be computed. The algorithm of Shor can effectively compute discrete logarithms, i.e. it can brake such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Johanna Barzen , Frank Leymann

Shor's quantum factoring algorithm and a few other efficient quantum algorithms break many classical crypto-systems. In response, people proposed post-quantum cryptography based on computational problems that are believed hard even for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Fang Song

Currently deployed public-key cryptosystems will be vulnerable to attacks by full-scale quantum computers. Consequently, "quantum resistant" cryptosystems are in high demand, and lattice-based cryptosystems, based on a hard problem known as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Emily Wenger , Mingjie Chen , François Charton , Kristin Lauter

We solve an open question in code-based cryptography by introducing two provably secure group signature schemes from code-based assumptions. Our basic scheme satisfies the CPA-anonymity and traceability requirements in the random oracle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Martianus Frederic Ezerman , Hyung Tae Lee , San Ling , Khoa Nguyen , Huaxiong Wang

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

The main practical limitation of the McEliece public-key encryption scheme is probably the size of its key. A famous trend to overcome this issue is to focus on subclasses of alternant/Goppa codes with a non trivial automorphism group. Such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Jean-Charles Faugère , Ayoub Otmani , Ludovic Perret , Frédéric de Portzamparc , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Quantum computers pose a fundamental threat to widely deployed public-key cryptosystems, such as RSA and ECC, by enabling efficient integer factorization using Shor's algorithm. Theoretical resource estimates suggest that 2048-bit RSA keys…

This paper presents a new technique for disturbing the algebraic structure of linear codes in code-based cryptography. This is a new attempt to exploit Gabidulin codes in the McEliece setting and almost all the previous cryptosystems of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Wenshuo Guo , Fang-Wei Fu

The El-Gamal AA_{\beta} Public Key Cryptosystem is a new asymmetric cryptosystem based on the piecewise AA_{\beta}-function. The AA_{\beta}-function which is essentially a one way Boolean function was motivated by the squaring and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Muhammad Rezal Kamel Ariffin , Arif Mandangan , Aniza Abdul Ghani , Kamel Ariffin Mohd Atan , Nor Azman Abu

In August 2015 the cryptographic world was shaken by a sudden and surprising announcement by the US National Security Agency NSA concerning plans to transition to post-quantum algorithms. Since this announcement post-quantum cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Jean-Charles Faug`ere , Kelsey Horan , Delaram Kahrobaei , Marc Kaplan , Elham Kashefi , Ludovic Perret

L\"ondahl and Johansson proposed last year a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem which replaces Goppa codes by convolutional codes. This modification is supposed to make structural attacks more difficult since the public generator matrix…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Grégory Landais , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Different variants of the code-based McEliece cryptosystem were pro- posed to reduce the size of the public key. All these variants use very structured codes, which open the door to new attacks exploiting the underlying structure. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-17 Morgan Barbier , Barreto S. L. M. Paulo

We present a novel approach to secret key establishment that appears to be resistant to currently known quantum cryptanalytic algorithms. This quantum resistance arises because the security of our method does not rely on the difficulty of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Luis Adrián Lizama-Pérez

Due to the weakness of public key cryptosystems encounter of quantum computers, the need to provide a solution was emerged. The McEliece cryptosystem and its security equivalent, the Niederreiter cryptosystem, which are based on Goppa…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Arash Khalvan , Amirhossein Zali , Mahmoud Ahmadian Attari

In this work, we exploit a serious security flaw in a code-based signature scheme from a 2019 work by Liu, Yang, Han and Wang. They adapt the McEliece cryptosystem to obtain a new scheme and, on top of this, they design an efficient digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Giuseppe D'Alconzo

The advancements in quantum computing are a threat to classical cryptographic systems. The traditional cryptographic methods that utilize factorization-based or discrete-logarithm-based algorithms, such as RSA and ECC, are some of these.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Nahid Aliyev , Ozan Cetin , Emil Huseynov

The need of exchanging messages and images secretly over unsecure networks promoted the creation of cryptosystems to enable receivers to interpret the exchanged information. In this paper, a particular public key cryptosystem called the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Hayder Raheem Hashim , Irtifaa Abdalkadum Neamaa