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In this paper we present a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem that possesses several interesting properties, including a reduction of the public key for a given security level. In contrast to the classical McEliece cryptosystems, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Paulo Almeida , Miguel Beltrá , Diego Napp , Cláudia Sebastião

Public key authenticated encryption with keyword search (PAEKS) represents a significant advancement of secure and searchable data sharing in public network systems, such as medical systems. It can effectively mitigate the risk of keyword…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiayin Cai , Xingwen Zhao , Dexin Li , Hui Li , Kai Fan

This article bridges the gap between two topics used in sharing an encryption key: (i) Key Consolidation, i.e., extracting two identical strings of bits from two information sources with similarities (common randomness). (ii) Quantum-safe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Amir K. Khandani

In 1998 [8], Patarin proposed an efficient cryptosystem called Little Dragon which was a variant a variant of Matsumoto Imai cryptosystem C*. However Patarin latter found that Little Dragon cryptosystem is not secure [8], [3]. In this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Rajesh P Singh , Anupam Saikia , B. K. Sarma

Post-quantum cryptography has gained attention due to the need for secure cryptographic systems in the face of quantum computing. Code-based and lattice-based cryptography are two prominent approaches, both heavily studied within the NIST…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Anna-Lena Horlemann , Karan Khathuria , Marc Newman , Amin Sakzad , Carlos Vela Cabello

Distributed broadcast encryption (DBE) is a specific kind of broadcast encryption (BE) where users independently generate their own public and private keys, and a sender can efficiently create a ciphertext for a subset of users by using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kwangsu Lee

In this paper we construct a new efficient updatable encryption (UE) scheme based on FrodoPKE learning with errors key encapsulation. We analyse the security of the proposed scheme in the backward-leak uni-directional setting within the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 M. Jurkiewicz , K. Prabucka

At Eurocrypt'99, Paillier presented a public-key cryptosystem based on a novel computational problem. It has interested many researchers because it was additively homomorphic. In this paper, we show that there is a big difference between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Zhengjun Cao , Lihua Liu

Quantum public-key encryption (PKE), where public-keys and/or ciphertexts can be quantum states, is an important primitive in quantum cryptography. Unlike classical PKE (e.g., RSA or ECC), quantum PKE can leverage quantum-secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Nishant Rodrigues , Walter O. Krawec , Brad Lackey , Deb Mukhopadhyay , Bing Wang

We propose to use real-valued errors instead of classical bit flipping intentional errors in the McEliece cryptosystem based on moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. This allows to exploit the error correcting capability of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Marco Baldi , Paolo Santini , Franco Chiaraluce

Our main result is a quantum public-key encryption scheme based on the Extrapolated Dihedral Coset problem (EDCP) which is equivalent, under quantum polynomial-time reductions, to the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem. For limited number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Javad Doliskani

Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) schemes encrypt a plaintext into a ciphertext while preserving its format (e.g., a valid social-security number is encrypted into a valid social-security number), thus allowing encrypted data to be stored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Mor Weiss , Boris Rozenberg , Muhammad Barham

Akleylek et al. [S. Akleylek, L. Emmungil and U. Nuriyev, A mod ified algorithm for peer-to-peer security, journal of Appl. Comput. Math., vol. 6(2), pp.258-264, 2007.], introduced a modified public-key encryption scheme with steganographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Roohallah Rastaghi

Quantum computers can break the RSA and El Gamal public-key cryptosystems, since they can factor integers and extract discrete logarithms. If we believe that quantum computers will someday become a reality, we would like to have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-10-19 Hang Dinh , Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

The key encapsulation mechanism Edon-K was proposed in response to the call for post-quantum cryptography standardization issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). This scheme is inspired by the McEliece scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Matthieu Lequesne , Jean-Pierre Tillich

We give polynomial time attacks on the McEliece public key cryptosystem based either on algebraic geometry (AG) codes or on small codimensional subcodes of AG codes. These attacks consist in the blind reconstruction either of an Error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Alain Couvreur , Irene Márquez-Corbella , Ruud Pellikaan

Krouk, Tavernier and Kabatiansky proposed new variants of the McEliece cryptosystem. In this letter, it is shown that cryptosystem based on correction of errors erasures is equal to the Mc-Eliece cryptosystem with worse parametrs public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kirill Yackushenoks , Fedor Ivanov

In this paper, we propose a new variant of the McEliece cryptosystem using two families of quasi-cyclic codes: low density parity check codes (QC-LDPC) and moderate density parity check codes (QC-MDPC). Due to the low weight codewords in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Belkacem Imine , Naima Hadj-Said , Adda Ali-Pacha

We prove that it is impossible to construct perfect-complete quantum public-key encryption (QPKE) with classical keys from quantumly secure one-way functions (OWFs) in a black-box manner, resolving a long-standing open question in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Longcheng Li , Qian Li , Xingjian Li , Qipeng Liu

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