Paper 2021/906
Two Public-Key Cryptosystems Based on Expanded Gabidulin Codes
Wenshuo Guo and Fang-Wei Fu
Abstract
This paper presents two public-key cryptosystems based on the so-called expanded Gabidulin codes, which are constructed by expanding Gabidulin codes over the base field. Exploiting the fast decoder of Gabidulin codes, we propose an efficient algorithm to decode these new codes when the noise vector satisfies a certain condition. Additionally, these new codes have an excellent error-correcting capability because of the optimality of their parent Gabidulin codes. Based on different masking techniques, we give two encryption schemes by using expanded Gabidulin codes in the McEliece setting. According to our analysis, these two cryptosystems can both resist the existing structural attacks. Furthermore, our proposals also have an obvious advantage in public-key representation without using the cyclic or quasi-cyclic structure compared to some other code-based cryptosystems. To achieve the security of 256 bits, for instance, a public-key size of 37005 bytes is enough for our first proposal, while around 1044992 bytes are needed for Classic McEliece selected as a candidate of the third round of the NIST PQC project.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Minor revision. arXiv:2107.01610 [cs.IT]
- Keywords
- post-quantum cryptographycode-based cryptography
- Contact author(s)
- ws_guo @ mail nankai edu cn
- History
- 2021-09-01: revised
- 2021-07-05: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/906
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/906,
author = {Wenshuo Guo and Fang-Wei Fu},
title = {Two Public-Key Cryptosystems Based on Expanded Gabidulin Codes},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/906},
year = {2021},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/906}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/906}
}
