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

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Title: A New Class of Q-Ary Codes for the McEliece Cryptosystem
Authors: Jürgen Freudenberger, Johann-Philipp Thiers
Source: Cryptography, Vol 5, Iss 11, p 11 (2021)
Publisher Information: MDPI AG
Publication Year: 2021
Collection: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
Subject Terms: public-key cryptography, code-based cryptosystem, McEliece cryptosystem, Gaussian integers, decoding attack, information-set decoding, Technology
Description: 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.
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
Language: 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
Availability: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography5010011
https://doaj.org/article/53340758c7854554bb80810ce5e4788e
Accession Number: edsbas.41F7DA30
Database: BASE
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