Paper 2013/287

The failure of McEliece PKC based on Reed-Muller codes.

I. V. Chizhov and M. A. Borodin

Abstract

This paper describes new algorithm for breaking McEliece cryptosystem, built on Reed-Muller binary code RM(r,m), which receives the private key from the public key. The algorithm has complexity O(nd+n4log2n) bit operations, where n=2m,d=GCD(r,m1). In the case of GCD(r,m1) limitation, attack has polynomial complexity. Practical results of implementation show that McEliece cryptosystems, based on the code with length n=65536 bits, can be broken in less than 7 hours on a personal computer.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown status
Keywords
Reed-Muller binary codeMcEliece cryptosystem
Contact author(s)
bor1m @ mail ru
History
2013-10-09: revised
2013-05-23: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/287
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/287,
      author = {I.  V.  Chizhov and M.  A.  Borodin},
      title = {The failure of {McEliece} {PKC} based on Reed-Muller codes.},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/287},
      year = {2013},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/287}
}
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