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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

An ultra-high throughput low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder with an unrolled full-parallel architecture is proposed, which achieves the highest decoding throughput compared to previously reported LDPC decoders in the literature. The…

Post-Quantum cryptography is about to substitute current cryptographic schemes as being resilient in attacks from quantum computers. McEleiece and Bit Flip Key Encapsulation (BIKE) are two delight representatives based on coding theory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Konstantinos Spalas

Encryption schemes based on the rank metric lead to small public key sizes of order of few thousands bytes which represents a very attractive feature compared to Hamming metric-based encryption schemes where public key sizes are of order of…

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

The main challenge of massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is the joint activity and signal detection of devices. The mMTC scenario with many devices transmitting data intermittently at low data rates and via very short packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

The use of codes defined by sparse characteristic matrices, like QC-LDPC and QC-MDPC codes, has become an established solution to design secure and efficient code-based public-key encryption schemes, as also witnessed by the ongoing NIST…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Marco Baldi , Franco Chiaraluce , Paolo Santini

We propose a two-layer coding architecture for communication of multiple users over a shared slotted medium enabling joint collision resolution and decoding. Each user first encodes its information bits with an outer code for reliability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 MohammadReza Ebrahimi , Farshad Lahouti , Victoria Kostina

We show in this work that reinforcement learning can be successfully applied to decoding short to moderate length sparse graph-based channel codes. Specifically, we focus on low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, which for example have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Salman Habib , Allison Beemer , Joerg Kliewer

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes are promising for realizing scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their potential for low-overhead protocols. A common approach to decoding qLDPC codes is to use the belief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Kento Tsubouchi , Hayata Yamasaki , Shiro Tamiya

In order to protect intellectual property against untrusted foundry, many logic-locking schemes have been developed. The main idea of logic locking is to insert a key-controlled block into a circuit to make the circuit function incorrectly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Jingbo Zhou , Xinmiao Zhang

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

In this paper, we propose a new class of bit flipping algorithms for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over the binary symmetric channel (BSC). Compared to the regular (parallel or serial) bit flipping algorithms, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dung Viet Nguyen , Bane Vasic , Michael W. Marcellin

The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

We introduce a novel post-quantum sanitizable signature scheme constructed upon a chameleon hash function derived from the McEliece cryptosystem. In this design, the designated sanitizer possesses the inherent trapdoor of a Goppa code,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shahzad Ahmad , Stefan Rass , Zahra Seyedi

Counting the number of distinct elements distributed over multiple data holders is a fundamental problem with many real-world applications ranging from crowd counting to network monitoring. Although a number of space and computational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Pinghui Wang , Chengjin Yang , Dongdong Xie , Junzhou Zhao , Hui Li , Jing Tao , Xiaohong Guan

The public key cryptosystem based on rank error correcting codes (the GPT cryptosystem) was proposed in 1991. Use of rank codes in cryptographic applications is advantageous since it is practically impossible to utilize combinatoric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ernst M. Gabidulin , Haitham Rashwan , Bahram Honary

A new protograph-based framework for message passing (MP) decoding of low density parity-check (LDPC) codes with Hamming weight amplifiers (HWAs), which are used e.g. in the NIST post-quantum crypto candidate LEDAcrypt, is proposed. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Hannes Bartz , Emna Ben Yacoub , Lorenza Bertarelli , Gianluigi Liva

To alleviate the suboptimal performance of belief propagation (BP) decoding of short low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, a plethora of improved decoding algorithms has been proposed over the last two decades. Many of these methods can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Felix Krieg , Jannis Clausius , Marvin Geiselhart , Stephan ten Brink

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes together with belief propagation (BP) decoding yield exceptional error correction capabilities in the large block length regime. Yet, there remains a gap between BP decoding and maximum likelihood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

Polar codes are newly discovered capacity-achieving codes, which have attracted lots of research efforts. Polar codes can be efficiently decoded by the low-complexity successive cancelation (SC) algorithm and the SC list (SCL) decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jun Lin , Chenrong Xiong , Zhiyuan Yan