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We prove that any variant of the GPT cryptosystem which uses a right column scrambler over the extension field as advocated by the works of Gabidulin et al. with the goal to resist to Overbeck's structural attack are actually still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Ayoub Otmani , Hervé Talé Kalachi , Sélestin Ndjeya

We present a new attack against cryptosystems based on the rank metric. Our attack allows us to cryptanalyze two variants of the GPT cryptosystem which were designed to resist the attack of Overbeck.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Kyle Marshall , Joachim Rosenthal

The security of public-key cryptosystems is mostly based on number theoretic problems like factorization and the discrete logarithm. There exists an algorithm which solves these problems in polynomial time using a quantum computer. Hence,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Sven Puchinger , Sven Müelich , Karim Ishak , Martin Bossert

Chebyshev polynomials have been recently proposed for designing public-key systems. Indeed, they enjoy some nice chaotic properties, which seem to be suitable for use in Cryptography. Moreover, they satisfy a semi-group property, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pina Bergamo , Paolo D'Arco , Alfredo De Santis , Ljupco Kocarev

We give a polynomial time attack on the McEliece public key cryptosystem based on subcodes of algebraic geometry (AG) codes. The proposed attack reposes on the distinguishability of such codes from random codes using the Schur product.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Alain Couvreur , Irene Márquez-Corbella , Ruud Pellikaan

In 2019 G\'omez described a new public key cryptography scheme based on ideas from multivariate public key cryptography using hidden irreducible polynomials. We show that the scheme's design has a flaw which lets an attacker recover the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Christian Eder

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 Rank metric decoding problem is the main problem considered in cryptography based on codes in the rank metric. Very efficient schemes based on this problem or quasi-cyclic versions of it have been proposed recently, such as those in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Magali Bardet , Pierre Briaud , Maxime Bros , Philippe Gaborit , Vincent Neiger , Olivier Ruatta , 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

We discuss a new attack, termed a dimension or linear decomposition attack, on several known group-based cryptosystems. This attack gives a polynomial time deterministic algorithm that recovers the secret shared key from the public data in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Vitaliǐ Roman'kov , Alexei Myasnikov

McNie is a code-based public key encryption scheme submitted as a candidate to the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization. In this paper, we present McNie2-Gabidulin, an improvement of McNie. By using Gabidulin code, we eliminate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Jon-Lark Kim , Young-Sik Kim , Lucky Galvez , Myeong Jae Kim

This paper investigates subcodes of lambda-Gabidulin codes, viewed as rank-metric analogues of generalized Reed--Solomon codes, and their applications to compact-ciphertext cryptosystems. We first analyze subspace and generalized subspace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Freddy Lendé Metouké , Hervé Talé Kalachi , Hermann Tchatchiem Kamche , Ousmane Ndiaye , Sélestin Ndjeya

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

The LG cryptosystem is a public-key encryption scheme in the rank metric using the recent family of $\lambdav-$Gabidulin codes and introduced in 2019 by Lau and Tan. In this paper, we present a cryptanalysis showing that the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Étienne Burle , Hervé Talé Kalachi , Freddy Lende Metouke , Ayoub Otmani

Because of their interesting algebraic properties, several authors promote the use of generalized Reed-Solomon codes in cryptography. Niederreiter was the first to suggest an instantiation of his cryptosystem with them but Sidelnikov and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Alain Couvreur , Philippe Gaborit , Valérie Gauthier-Umaña , Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich

The McEliece cryptosystem is a public-key cryptosystem based on coding theory that has successfully resisted cryptanalysis for thirty years. The original version, based on Goppa codes, is able to guarantee a high level of security, and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-20 Marco Baldi

RankSign [GRSZ14a] is a code-based signature scheme proposed to the NIST competition for quantum-safe cryptography [AGHRZ17] and, moreover, is a fundamental building block of a new Identity-Based-Encryption (IBE) [GHPT17a]. This signature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Thomas Debris-Alazard , Jean-Pierre Tillich

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

This article addresses code-based cryptography and is designed to depict the complete outline of a code based public key cryptosystem. This report includes basic mathematics and fundamentals of coding theory which are useful for studying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Harshdeep Singh

Lattice based encryption schemes and linear code based encryption schemes have received extensive attention in recent years since they have been considered as post-quantum candidate encryption schemes. Though LLL reduction algorithm has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Yongge Wang