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Due to the rapid advances in the development of quantum computers and their susceptibility to errors, there is a renewed interest in error correction algorithms. In particular, error correcting code-based cryptosystems have reemerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Lake Bu , Rashmi Agrawal , Hai Cheng , Michel A. Kinsy

Due to the weakness of public key cryptosystems encounter of quantum computers, the need to provide a solution was emerged. The McEliece cryptosystem and its security equivalent, the Niederreiter cryptosystem, which are based on Goppa…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Arash Khalvan , Amirhossein Zali , Mahmoud Ahmadian Attari

This letter presents a cryptanalysis of the modified McEliece cryptosystem recently proposed by Moufek, Guenda and Gulliver [24]. The system is based on the juxtaposition of quasi-cyclic LDPC and quasi-cyclic MDPC codes. The idea of our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Vlad Dragoi , Hervé Talé Kalachi

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, 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 BBCRS scheme is a variant of the McEliece public-key encryption scheme where the hiding phase is performed by taking the inverse of a matrix which is of the form $\mathbf{T} +\mathbf{R}$ where $\mathbf{T}$ is a sparse matrix with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Alain Couvreur , Ayoub Otmani , Jean-Pierre Tillich , Valérie Gauthier-Umana

Polar codes are novel and efficient error correcting codes with low encoding and decoding complexities. These codes have a channel dependent generator matrix which is determined by the code dimension, code length and transmission channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Reza Hooshmand , Masoumeh Koochak Shooshtari , Mohammad Reza Aref

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

We bring in here a novel algebraic approach for attacking the McEliece cryptosystem. It consists in introducing a subspace of matrices representing quadratic forms. Those are associated with quadratic relationships for the component-wise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Alain Couvreur , Rocco Mora , Jean-Pierre Tillich

The McEliece public-key encryption scheme has become an interesting alternative to cryptosystems based on number-theoretical problems. Differently from RSA and ElGa- mal, McEliece PKC is not known to be broken by a quantum computer.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Nico Döttling , Rafael Dowsley , Jörn Müller-Quade , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

We propose to use real-valued errors instead of classical bit flipping intentional errors in the McEliece cryptosystem based on moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes. This allows to exploit the error correcting capability of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Marco Baldi , Paolo Santini , Franco Chiaraluce

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

In the context of public key cryptography, the McEliece cryptosystem represents a very smart solution based on the hardness of the decoding problem, which is believed to be able to resist the advent of quantum computers. Despite this, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Marco Baldi , Marco Bianchi , Franco Chiaraluce

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

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

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

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

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

We present a novel approach to post-quantum cryptography that employs directed-graph decryption of noise-enhanced high-memory convolutional codes. The proposed construction generates random-like generator matrices that effectively conceal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Meir Ariel

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