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We present a new distinguisher for alternant and Goppa codes, whose complexity is subexponential in the error-correcting capability, hence better than that of generic decoding algorithms. Moreover it does not suffer from the strong regime…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hugues Randriambololona

In this paper, a code-based public-key cryptosystem based on interleaved Goppa codes is presented. The scheme is based on encrypting several ciphertexts with the same Goppa code and adding a burst error to them. Possible attacks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Molka Elleuch , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Alexander Zeh

The security of code-based cryptography relies primarily on the hardness of generic decoding with linear codes. The best generic decoding algorithms are all improvements of an old algorithm due to Prange: they are known under the name of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Kevin Carrier , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Charles Meyer-Hilfiger , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Code-based cryptography is an interesting alternative to classic number-theory PKC since it is conjectured to be secure against quantum computer attacks. Many families of codes have been proposed for these cryptosystems, one of the main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Irene Márquez-Corbella , Ruud Pellikaan

The security of code-based cryptography relies primarily on the hardness of decoding generic linear codes. Until very recently, all the best algorithms for solving the decoding problem were information set decoders (ISD). However, recently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kévin Carrier , Thomas Debris-Alazard , Charles Meyer-Hilfiger , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Robust optimization is a framework for modeling optimization problems involving data uncertainty and during the last decades has been an area of active research. If we focus on linear programming (LP) problems with i) uncertain data, ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Roberto Mínguez , Víctor Casero-Alonso

Recently, a novel lookup table based decoding method for binary low-density parity-check codes has attracted considerable attention. In this approach, mutual-information maximizing lookup tables replace the conventional operations of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Maximilian Stark , Jan Lewandowsky , Souradip Saha , Gerhard Bauch

Characterizing the decoding failure rate of iteratively decoded Low- and Moderate-Density Parity Check (LDPC/MDPC) codes is paramount to build cryptosystems based on them, able to achieve indistinguishability under adaptive chosen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Paolo Santini , Alessandro Barenghi , Gerardo Pelosi , Marco Baldi , Franco Chiaraluce

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

Information leakage to a guessing adversary in index coding is studied, where some messages in the system are sensitive and others are not. The non-sensitive messages can be used by the server like secret keys to mitigate leakage of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Phee Lep Yeoh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Joerg Kliewer , Sarah Johnson

With increasing advancements in technology, it is expected that the emergence of a quantum computer will potentially break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in use. It will negotiate the confidentiality and integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

We introduce a new family of rank metric codes: Low Rank Parity Check codes (LRPC), for which we propose an efficient probabilistic decoding algorithm. This family of codes can be seen as the equivalent of classical LDPC codes for the rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Nicolas Aragon , Philippe Gaborit , Adrien Hauteville , Olivier Ruatta , Gilles Zémor

The family of Goppa codes is one of the most interesting subclasses of linear codes. As the McEliece cryptosystem often chooses a random Goppa code as its key,knowledge of the number of inequivalent Goppa codes for fixed parameters may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bocong Chen , Guanghui Zhang

This paper is an attempt to build a new public-key cryptosystem; similar to the McEliece cryptosystem, using permutation error-correcting codes. We study a public-key cryptosystem built using two permutation error-correcting codes. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Adarsh Srinivasan , Ayan Mahalanobis

The security of code-based cryptography relies primarily on the hardness of generic decoding with linear codes. The best generic decoding algorithms are all improvements of an old algorithm due to Prange: they are known under the name of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Thomas Debris-Alazard , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Providing closed-form estimates of the decoding failure rate of iterative decoders for low- and moderate-density binary parity-check codes has attracted significant interest in the research community. Recently, interest in this topic has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Alessandro Annechini , Alessandro Barenghi , Gerardo Pelosi

This paper investigates decoding of binary linear block codes over the binary erasure channel (BEC). Of the current iterative decoding algorithms on this channel, we review the Recovery Algorithm and the Guess Algorithm. We then present a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 J. Cai , C. Tjhai , M. Tomlinson , M. Ambroze , M. Ahmed

Coding/decoding algorithms are of great importance to help in improving information security since information security is a more significiant problem in recent years. In this paper we introduce two new coding/decoding algorithms using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sümeyra UçAr , Nihal Taş , Nihal Yilmaz Özgür

We introduce a new method for decoding short and moderate length linear block codes with dense parity-check matrix representations of cyclic form, termed multiple-bases belief-propagation (MBBP). The proposed iterative scheme makes use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Thorsten Hehn , Johannes B. Huber , Olgica Milenkovic , Stefan Laendner

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