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Quantum computers create new security risks for today's encryption systems. This paper presents an improved version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that uses quantum technology to strengthen protection. Our approach offers two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Albert Nieto-Morales , Arit Kumar Bishwas , Joel Jacob Varghese

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

This article discusses the security of McEliece-like encryption schemes using subspace subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes, i.e. subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes over $\mathbb{F}_{q^m}$ whose entries lie in a fixed collection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Alain Couvreur , Matthieu Lequesne

Post-quantum cryptography is essential for securing digital communications against threats posed by quantum computers. Re-searchers have focused on developing algorithms that can withstand attacks from both classical and quantum computers,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Juan Pedro Hecht , Hugo Daniel Scolnik

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized the selection of post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms for use in the era of quantum computing. Despite their integration into TLS protocol for key establishment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ben Dong , Qian Wang

Post-quantum cryptography currently rests on a small number of hardness assumptions, posing significant risks should any one of them be compromised. This vulnerability motivates the search for new and cryptographically versatile assumptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jonathan Z. Lu , Alexander Poremba , Yihui Quek , Akshar Ramkumar

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

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

In this paper we consider a post-quantum digital signature scheme based on low-density generator matrix codes and propose efficient algorithmic solutions for its implementation. We also review all known attacks against this scheme and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Marco Baldi , Alessandro Barenghi , Franco Chiaraluce , Gerardo Pelosi , Joachim Rosenthal , Paolo Santini , Davide Schipani

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

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is crucial for securing data against emerging quantum threats. However, its algorithms are computationally complex and difficult to implement efficiently on hardware. In this paper, we explore the potential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

In this paper we show that it is possible to extend the framework of Persichetti's code-based framework and create a secure KEM based on the McEliece protocol. This provides greater flexibility in the application of coding theory as a basis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Edoardo Persichetti

Coded caching provides significant gains over conventional uncoded caching by creating multicasting opportunities among distinct requests. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems require downlink channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Qianqian Yang , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gündüz

This paper propose a decoder architecture for low-density parity-check convolutional code (LDPCCC). Specifically, the LDPCCC is derived from a quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC block code. By making use of the quasi-cyclic structure, the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chiu-Wing Sham , Xu Chen , Francis C. M. Lau , Yue Zhao , Wai M. Tam

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

McEliece cryptosystem represents a smart open key system based on the hardness of the decoding of an arbitrary linear code, which is believed to be able to resist the advent of quantum computers. But the original McEliece cryptosystem,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Fedor Ivanov , Eugenii Krouk

The development of quantum computing threatens the security of our currently widely deployed cryptographic algorithms. While signicant progress has been made in developing post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards to protect against future…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Brian LaMacchia , Matt Campagna , William Gropp

We present a layered and modular network architecture that combines Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to provide scalable end-to-end security across long distance multi-hop, trusted-node quantum networks. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Paul Spooren , Andreas Neuhold , Sebastian Ramacher , Thomas Hühn

The use of codes defined by sparse characteristic matrices, like QC-LDPC and QC-MDPC codes, has become an established solution to design secure and efficient code-based public-key encryption schemes, as also witnessed by the ongoing NIST…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Marco Baldi , Franco Chiaraluce , Paolo Santini

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