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Due to the recent challenges in post-quantum cryptography, several new approaches for code-based cryptography have been proposed. For example, a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem based on interleaved codes was proposed. In order to deem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Anmoal Porwal , Lukas Holzbaur , Hedongliang Liu , Julian Renner , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Violetta Weger

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

Baldi et \textit{al.} proposed a variant of McEliece's cryptosystem. The main idea is to replace its permutation matrix by adding to it a rank 1 matrix. The motivation for this change is twofold: it would allow the use of codes that were…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Valérie Gauthier , Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich

Twisted Reed-Solomon (TRS) codes are a family of codes that contains a large number of maximum distance separable codes that are non-equivalent to Reed--Solomon codes. TRS codes were recently proposed as an alternative to Goppa codes for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Julien Lavauzelle , Julian Renner

This paper presents a new technique for disturbing the algebraic structure of linear codes in code-based cryptography. This is a new attempt to exploit Gabidulin codes in the McEliece setting and almost all the previous cryptosystems of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Wenshuo Guo , Fang-Wei Fu

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

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

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

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

McEliece encryption scheme which enjoys relatively small key sizes as well as a security reduction to hard problems of coding theory. Furthermore, it remains secure against a quantum adversary and is very well suited to low cost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Julia Chaulet , Nicolas Sendrier

A new computational private information retrieval (PIR) scheme based on random linear codes is presented. A matrix of messages from a McEliece scheme is used to query the server with carefully chosen errors. The server responds with the sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Lukas Holzbaur , Camilla Hollanti , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We consider the framework of the McEliece cryptosystem based on LDPC codes, which is a promising post-quantum alternative to classical public key cryptosystems. The use of LDPC codes in this context allows to achieve good security levels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Nicola Maturo , Franco Chiaraluce

In this paper, we define and discuss {\phi}-cyclic code, which may be regarded as a general form of the ordinary cyclic code. As applications, we explain how to extend two public key encryption schemes, one is McEliece and Niederriter's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Zhiyong Zheng , Wenlin Huang , Jie Xu , Kun Tian

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 convert Stern's information set decoding (ISD) algorithm to the ring $\mathbb{Z}/4 \mathbb{Z}$ equipped with the Lee metric. Moreover, we set up the general framework for a McEliece and a Niederreiter cryptosystem over this ring. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann , Violetta Weger

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

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

Based on quantum encryption, we present a new idea for quantum public-key cryptography (QPKC) and construct a whole theoretical framework of a QPKC system. We show that the quantum-mechanical nature renders it feasible and reasonable to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Fei Gao , Qiao-Yan Wen , Su-Juan Qin , Fu-Chen Zhu

Code-based public-key cryptosystems based on QC-LDPC and QC-MDPC codes are promising post-quantum candidates to replace quantum vulnerable classical alternatives. However, a new type of attacks based on Bob's reactions have recently been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Paolo Santini , Marco Baldi , Franco Chiaraluce

The Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES) is widely regarded as a practical method and has been adopted by multiple standards. However, the advancement of quantum computing technologies poses potential security risks to ECIES.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Abel C. H. Chen