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Recently, a few chosen-ciphertext secure (CCA2-secure) variants of the McEliece public-key encryption (PKE) scheme in the standard model were introduced. All the proposed schemes are based on encryption repetition paradigm and use general…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Roohallah Rastaghi

The main practical limitation of the McEliece public-key encryption scheme is probably the size of its key. A famous trend to overcome this issue is to focus on subclasses of alternant/Goppa codes with a non trivial automorphism group. Such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Jean-Charles Faugère , Ayoub Otmani , Ludovic Perret , Frédéric de Portzamparc , 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

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 propose a new method for retrieving the algebraic structure of a generic alternant code given an arbitrary generator matrix, provided certain conditions are met. We then discuss how this challenges the security of the McEliece…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Axel Lemoine

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 modification of Reed-Solomon codes that beats the Guruwami-Sudan $1-\sqrt{R}$ decoding radius of Reed-Solomon codes at low rates $R$. The idea is to choose Reed-Solomon codes $U$ and $V$ with appropriate rates in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Irene Márquez-Corbella , Jean-Pierre Tillich

The HQC encryption framework is a general code-based encryption scheme for which decryption returns a noisy version of the plaintext. Any instantiation of the scheme will therefore use an error-correcting procedure relying on a fixed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Nicolas Aragon , Philippe Gaborit , Gilles Zémor

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes constitute an interesting family of evaluation codes, containing a large class of maximum distance separable codes non-equivalent to generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) ones. Moreover, the Schur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Alain Couvreur , Rakhi Pratihar , Nihan Tanısalı , Ilaria Zappatore

An improved design of a cryptosystem based on small Ree groups is proposed. We have changed the encryption algorithm and propose to use a logarithmic signature for the entire Ree group. This approach improves security against sequential key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Gennady Khalimov , Yevgen Kotukh

This paper presents two public key cryptosystems based on the so-called expanded Gabidulin codes, which are constructed by expanding Gabidulin codes over the base field. Exploiting the fast decoder of Gabidulin codes, we propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Wenshuo Guo , Fang-Wei Fu

Twisted generalized Reed-Solomon (TGRS) codes were introduced to extend the algebraic capabilities of classical generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes. This extension holds the potential for constructing new non-GRS maximum distance separable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Guanghui Zhang , Liren Lin , Bocong Chen

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

In this paper, it is shown that the syndromes of generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes and alternant codes can be characterized in terms of inverse fast Fourier transform, regardless of code definitions. Then a fast decoding algorithm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Nianqi Tang , Yunghsiang S. Han , Danyang Pei , Chao Chen

In this paper, we study the behavior of the true dimension of the subfield subcodes of Hermitian codes. Our motivation is to use these classes of linear codes to improve the parameters of the McEliece cryptosystem, such that key size and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Sabira El Khalfaoui , Gábor P. Nagy

With increasing advancements in technology, it is expected that the emergence of a quantum computer will potentially break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in use. It will negotiate the confidentiality and integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

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 present a rank metric code-based encryption scheme with key and ciphertext sizes comparable to that of isogeny-based cryptography for an equivalent security level. The system also benefits from efficient encryption and decryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Julien Lavauzelle , Pierre Loidreau , Ba-Duc Pham

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

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