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Strengthening McEliece cryptosystem

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2000) 1976 585-598
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44448-3_45
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McEliece cryptosystem is a public-key cryptosystem based on error-correcting codes. It constitutes one of the few alternatives to cryptosystems relying on number theory. We present a modification of the McEliece cryptosystem which strengthens its security without increasing the size of the public key. We show that it is possible to use some properties of the automorphism groups of the codes to build decodable patterns of large weight errors. This greatly strengthens the system against the decoding attacks.

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Loidreau, P. (2000). Strengthening McEliece cryptosystem. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 1976, pp. 585–598). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44448-3_45

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