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Generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) and Gabidulin codes have been proposed for various code-based cryptosystems, though most such schemes without elaborate disguising techniques have been successfully attacked. Both code classes are prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Felicitas Hörmann , Anna-Lena Horlemann

Private and public actors increasingly encounter use cases where they need to implement sensitive operations on mass-market peripherals for which they have little or no control. They are sometimes inclined to attempt this without using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Vincent Giraud , Guillaume Bouffard

This article discusses the security of McEliece-like encryption schemes using subspace subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes, i.e. subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes over $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$ whose entries lie in a fixed collection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Alain Couvreur , Matthieu Lequesne

Wachter-Zeh in [42], and later together with Raviv [31], proved that Gabidulin codes cannot be efficiently list decoded for any radius $\tau$, providing that $\tau$ is large enough. Also, they proved that there are infinitely many choices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Paolo Santonastaso , Ferdinando Zullo

Most modern cryptographic systems, such as RSA and the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, rely on "trapdoor" mathematical functions that are presumed to be computationally difficult with existing tools. However, quantum computers will be able to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Alexander Meyer

In this paper we study recent reaction attacks against QC-LDPC and QC-MDPC code-based cryptosystems, which allow an opponent to recover the private parity-check matrix through its distance spectrum by observing a sufficiently high number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Paolo Santini , Marco Baldi , Giovanni Cancellieri , 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

MinRank is an NP-complete problem in linear algebra whose characteristics make it attractive to build post-quantum cryptographic primitives. Several MinRank-based digital signature schemes have been proposed. In particular, two of them,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Antonio J. Di Scala , Carlo Sanna

With the advancement of quantum computing, symmetric cryptography faces new challenges from quantum attacks. These attacks are typically classified into two models: Q1 (classical queries) and Q2 (quantum superposition queries). In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Yan-Ying Zhu , Bin-Bin Cai , Fei Gao , Song Lin

A long standing open question is whether the distinguisher of high rate alternant codes or Goppa codes \cite{FGOPT11} can be turned into an algorithm recovering the algebraic structure of such codes from the mere knowledge of an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Magali Bardet , Rocco Mora , Jean-Pierre Tillich

In this paper, we initiate the study of Extended Gabidulin codes with a Kronecker product structure and propose three enhanced variants of the Rank Quasi-Cyclic (RQC) (Melchor et.al., IEEE IT, 2018) cryptosystem. First, we establish precise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhe Sun , Terry Shue Chien Lau , Mengying Zhao , Zimeng Zhou , Fang-Wei Fu

We cryptanalyse here two variants of the McEliece cryptosystem based on quasi-cyclic codes. Both aim at reducing the key size by restricting the public and secret generator matrices to be in quasi-cyclic form. The first variant considers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-01-04 Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich , Leonard Dallot

We construct a public-key encryption scheme from the hardness of the (planted) MinRank problem over uniformly random instances. This corresponds to the hardness of decoding random linear rank-metric codes. Existing constructions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Rohit Chatterjee , Changrui Mu , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

In this note, we describe a probabilistic attack on public key cryptosystems based on the word/conjugacy problems for finitely presented groups of the type proposed recently by Anshel, Anshel and Goldfeld. In such a scheme, one makes use of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 James Hughes , Allen Tannenbaum

For any admissible value of the parameters there exist Maximum Rank distance (shortly MRD) $\mathbb{F}_{q^n}$-linear codes of $\mathbb{F}_q^{n\times n}$. It has been shown in \cite{H-TNRR} (see also \cite{ByrneRavagnani}) that, if field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Luca Giuzzi , Ferdinando Zullo

So far, there is no polynomial-time list decoding algorithm (beyond half the minimum distance) for Gabidulin codes. These codes can be seen as the rank-metric equivalent of Reed--Solomon codes. In this paper, we provide bounds on the list…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Antonia Wachter-Zeh

McEliece cryptosystem represents a smart open key system based on the hardness of the decoding of an arbitrary linear code, which is believed to be able to resist the advent of quantum computers. But the original McEliece cryptosystem,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Fedor Ivanov , Eugenii Krouk

We propose public-key cryptosystems with public key a system of polynomial equations, algebraic or differential, and private key a single polynomial or a small-size ideal. We set up probabilistic encryption, signature, and signcryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ilia Toli

In this paper we study the security of the key of compact McEliece schemes based on alternant/Goppa codes with a non-trivial permutation group, in particular quasi-cyclic alternant codes. We show that it is possible to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Elise Barelli

For a growing number of applications such as cellular, peer-to-peer, and sensor networks, efficient error-free transmission of data through a network is essential. Toward this end, K\"{o}tter and Kschischang propose the use of subspace…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Katherine Morrison