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Post-quantum cryptography-PQC- aims to develop public-key primitives that are secure against adversaries using classical and quantum computing technologies. This study introduces novel protocols, a key encapsulation mechanism, a digital…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Juan Pedro Hecht , Hugo Daniel Scolnik

The McEliece cryptosystem based on quasi-cyclic moderate-density parity-check (QC-MDPC) codes is first purposed in 2013\cite{QCMDPC} and is considered a promising contender in the post-quantum era. Understanding its security is hence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Han Li

Advances in quantum computing threaten digital communication security by undermining the foundations of current public-key cryptography through Shor's quantum algorithm. This has driven the development of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Callum Turino , William J Buchanan , Owen Lo , Christoph Thuummler

This paper is an attempt to build a new public-key cryptosystem; similar to the McEliece cryptosystem, using permutation error-correcting codes. We study a public-key cryptosystem built using two permutation error-correcting codes. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Adarsh Srinivasan , Ayan Mahalanobis

Advances in quantum computing increasingly threaten the security and privacy of data protected by current cryptosystems, particularly those relying on public-key cryptography. In response, the international cybersecurity community has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Marthin Toruan , R. D. N. Shakya , Samuel Tseitkin , Raymond K. Zhao , Nalin Arachchilage

This paper investigates a quantum version of McEliece public-key encryption (PKE) scheme, and analyzes its security. As is well known, the security of classical McEliece PKE is not stronger than the onewayness of related classical one-way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Li Yang , Min Liang

NIST is conducting a process for the standardization of post-quantum cryptosystems, i.e., cryptosystems that are resistant to attacks by both traditional and quantum computers and that can thus substitute the traditional public-key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Andrea Galimberti , Gabriele Montanaro , William Fornaciari , Davide Zoni

Recently, it has been shown how McEliece public-key cryptosystems based on moderate-density parity-check (MDPC) codes allow for very compact keys compared to variants based on other code families. In this paper, classical (iterative)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Hannes Bartz , Gianluigi Liva

Due to recent development in quantum computing, the invention of a large quantum computer is no longer a distant future. Quantum computing severely threatens modern cryptography, as the hard mathematical problems beneath classic public-key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Tao Liu , Gowri Ramachandran , Raja Jurdak

Polar codes are a new class of error correcting linear block codes, whose generator matrix is specified by the knowledge of transmission channel parameters, code length and code dimension. Moreover, regarding computational security, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Reza Hooshmand

The advent of quantum computing poses a profound threat to traditional cryptographic systems, exposing vulnerabilities that compromise the security of digital communication channels reliant on RSA, ECC, and similar classical encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-31 G S Mamatha , Namya Dimri , Rasha Sinha

In recent years, the elliptic curve Qu-Vanstone (ECQV) implicit certificate scheme has found application in security credential management systems (SCMS) and secure vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication to issue pseudonymous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Abel C. H. Chen

Polar codes are the first provable capacity-achieving forward error correction (FEC) codes. In general polar codes can be decoded via either successive cancellation (SC) or belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. However, to date…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Bo Yuan , Keshab K. Parhi

Quantum computer is no longer a hypothetical idea. It is the worlds most important technology and there is a race among countries to get supremacy in quantum technology. Its the technology that will reduce the computing time from years to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Manish Kumar

Practical implementations of secret-key generation are often based on sequential strategies, which handle reliability and secrecy in two successive steps, called reconciliation and privacy amplification. In this paper, we propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch , Emmanuel Abbe

Combined with one-time pad encryption scheme, quantum key distribution guarantees the unconditional security of communication in theory. However, error correction and privacy amplification in the post-processing phase of quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Junbing Fang , Zhengzhong Yi , Jin Li , Zhipeng Liang , Yulin Wu , Wen Lei , Zoe Lin Jiang , Xuan Wang

Another threat is the development of large quantum computers, which have a high likelihood of breaking the high popular security protocols because it can use both Shor and Grover algorithms. In order to fix this looming threat,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Navin Chhibber , Amber Rastogi , Ankur Mahida , Vatsal Gupta , Piyush Ranjan

Advances in quantum computing make Shor's algorithm for factorising numbers ever more tractable. This threatens the security of any cryptographic system which often relies on the difficulty of factorisation. It also threatens methods based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jon Barton , William J Buchanan , Nikolaos Pitropakis , Sarwar Sayeed , Will Abramson

The current blockchain system for cryptocurrency exchanges primarily employs elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for generating key pairs in wallets, and elliptic curve digital signature algorithms (ECDSA) for generating signatures in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Abel C. H. Chen

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