Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2008/468

A CCA2 Secure Public Key Encryption Scheme Based on the McEliece Assumptions in the Standard Model

Rafael Dowsley and Jörn Müller-Quade and Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Abstract: We show that a recently proposed construction by Rosen and Segev can be used for obtaining the first public key encryption scheme based on the McEliece assumptions which is secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks in the standard model.

Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography /

Date: received 4 Nov 2008, last revised 18 Nov 2008

Contact author: rafaeldowsley at redes unb br

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Version: 20081119:004209 (All versions of this report)

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