A New Class of Q-Ary Codes for the McEliece Cryptosystem

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Název: A New Class of Q-Ary Codes for the McEliece Cryptosystem
Autoři: Jürgen Freudenberger, Johann-Philipp Thiers
Zdroj: Cryptography, Vol 5, Iss 11, p 11 (2021)
Informace o vydavateli: MDPI AG
Rok vydání: 2021
Sbírka: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
Témata: public-key cryptography, code-based cryptosystem, McEliece cryptosystem, Gaussian integers, decoding attack, information-set decoding, Technology
Popis: The McEliece cryptosystem is a promising candidate for post-quantum public-key encryption. In this work, we propose q -ary codes over Gaussian integers for the McEliece system and a new channel model. With this one Mannheim error channel, errors are limited to weight one. We investigate the channel capacity of this channel and discuss its relation to the McEliece system. The proposed codes are based on a simple product code construction and have a low complexity decoding algorithm. For the one Mannheim error channel, these codes achieve a higher error correction capability than maximum distance separable codes with bounded minimum distance decoding. This improves the work factor regarding decoding attacks based on information-set decoding.
Druh dokumentu: article in journal/newspaper
Jazyk: English
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-387X/5/1/11; https://doaj.org/toc/2410-387X; https://doaj.org/article/53340758c7854554bb80810ce5e4788e
DOI: 10.3390/cryptography5010011
Dostupnost: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography5010011
https://doaj.org/article/53340758c7854554bb80810ce5e4788e
Přístupové číslo: edsbas.41F7DA30
Databáze: BASE
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Abstrakt:The McEliece cryptosystem is a promising candidate for post-quantum public-key encryption. In this work, we propose q -ary codes over Gaussian integers for the McEliece system and a new channel model. With this one Mannheim error channel, errors are limited to weight one. We investigate the channel capacity of this channel and discuss its relation to the McEliece system. The proposed codes are based on a simple product code construction and have a low complexity decoding algorithm. For the one Mannheim error channel, these codes achieve a higher error correction capability than maximum distance separable codes with bounded minimum distance decoding. This improves the work factor regarding decoding attacks based on information-set decoding.
DOI:10.3390/cryptography5010011