Paper 2017/494
A Reaction Attack on the QC-LDPC McEliece Cryptosystem
Tomas Fabsic, Viliam Hromada, Paul Stankovski, Pavol Zajac, Qian Guo, and Thomas Johansson
Abstract
Guo et al. recently presented a reaction attack against the QC-MDPC McEliece cryptosystem. Their attack is based on the observation that when a bit-flipping decoding algorithm is used in the QC-MDPC McEliece, then there exists a dependence between the secret matrix
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. PQCrypto 2017
- Keywords
- QC-LDPC McEliece cryptosystemreaction attacksoft-decision decoding
- Contact author(s)
- tomas fabsic @ stuba sk
- History
- 2017-06-01: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/494
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/494, author = {Tomas Fabsic and Viliam Hromada and Paul Stankovski and Pavol Zajac and Qian Guo and Thomas Johansson}, title = {A Reaction Attack on the {QC}-{LDPC} {McEliece} Cryptosystem}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/494}, year = {2017}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/494} }