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This paper presents a novel post-quantum cryptosystem based on high-memory masked convolutional codes. Unlike conventional code-based schemes that rely on block codes with fixed dimensions and limited error-correction capability, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Meir Ariel

Quantum error correction (QEC) is critical for practical realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing, and recently proposed families of quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) code are prime candidates for advanced QEC hardware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nithin Raveendran , David Declercq , Bane Vasić

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes provide a practical balance between error-correction capability and implementation complexity in quantum error correction (QEC). In this paper, we propose an algebraic construction based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Alessio Baldelli , Massimo Battaglioni , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

In this paper, we suggest a code-based public key encryption scheme, called McNie. McNie is a hybrid version of the McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems and its security is reduced to the hard problem of syndrome decoding. The public key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Jon-Lark Kim , Young-Sik Kim , Lucky Galvez , Myeong Jae Kim , Nari Lee

Quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are a class of LDPC codes with a simple construction facilitating hardware implementation while achieving excellent performance. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haizheng Li , Sisi Miao , Laurent Schmalen

A novel method guaranteeing nondecreasing girth is presented for constructing longer low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from shorter ones. The parity-check matrix of a shorter base code is decomposed into N (N>=2) non-overlapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Guohua Zhang , Yulin Hu , Qinwei He

With the rapid advancements in quantum computing, traditional cryptographic schemes like Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) are becoming vulnerable, necessitating the development of quantum-resistant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Omar Alnaseri , Yassine Himeur , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

Lattice based encryption schemes and linear code based encryption schemes have received extensive attention in recent years since they have been considered as post-quantum candidate encryption schemes. Though LLL reduction algorithm has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Yongge Wang

This work presents some novel techniques to enhance an encryption scheme motivated by classical McEliece cryptosystem. Contributions include: (1) using masking matrices to hide sensitive data, (2) allowing both legitimate parties to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Amir K. Khandani

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

Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are among the most promising candidates for future quantum error correction schemes. However, a limited number of short to moderate-length QLDPC codes have been designed and their decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sisi Miao , Jonathan Mandelbaum , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

Identifying the best families of quantum error correction (QEC) codes for near-term experiments is key to enabling fault-tolerant quantum computing. Ideally, such codes should have low overhead in qubit number, high physical error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Laura Pecorari , Guido Pupillo

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

For any positive integer $g \ge 2$, we derive general condition for the existence of a $2g$-cycle in the Tanner graph of two-dimensional ($2$-D) classical quasi-cyclic (QC) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. Depending on whether $p$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavan Kumar , Shayan Srinivasa Garani

The decoding throughput in the postprocessing is one of the bottlenecks for a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system. In this paper, we propose a layered decoder to decode quasi-cyclic multi-edge type LDPC (QC-METLDPC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Yang Li , Xiaofang Zhang , Yong Li , Bingjie Xu , Li Ma , Jie Yang , Wei Huang

In our recent paper entitled "Quantum Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check codes" [ICIC 2009. LNCS 5754], it was claimed that some new quantum codes can be constructed via the CSS encoding/decoding approach with various lengths and rates.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Dazu Huang , Zhigang Chen , Xin Li , Ying Guo

L\"ondahl and Johansson proposed last year a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem which replaces Goppa codes by convolutional codes. This modification is supposed to make structural attacks more difficult since the public generator matrix…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Grégory Landais , Jean-Pierre Tillich

This work presents a new code-based key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) called LEDAkem. It is built on the Niederreiter cryptosystem and relies on quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes as secret codes, providing high decoding speeds and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Marco Baldi , Alessandro Barenghi , Franco Chiaraluce , Gerardo Pelosi , Paolo Santini

It is widely accepted that quantum error correction is essential for realizing large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. Recent experiments have demonstrated error correction codes operating below threshold, primarily using local planar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Christian Kraglund Andersen , Eliška Greplová

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