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The McEliece Cryptosystem

Suanne Au Christina Eubanks-Turner, Jennifer Everson

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The McEliece cryptosystem is a public key cryptosystem whose security rests on the dicult problem of decoding an unknown error-correcting code. We give two examples of attacks to the cryptosystem, as well as a brief introduction to Goppa codes. One modification to this cryptosystem proposed by Pierre Loidreau increases the security of the system without increasing the key size or length of the code.

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The McEliece cryptosystem is a public key cryptosystem whose security rests on the dicult problem of decoding an unknown error-correcting code. We give two examples of attacks to the cryptosystem, as well as a brief introduction to Goppa codes. One modification to this cryptosystem proposed by Pierre Loidreau increases the security of the system without increasing the key size or length of the code.

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The McEliece cryptosystem is a public key cryptosystem whose security rests on the dicult problem of decoding an unknown error-correcting code. We give two examples of attacks to the cryptosystem, as well as a brief introduction to Goppa codes. One modification to this cryptosystem proposed by Pierre Loidreau increases the security of the system without increasing the key size or length of the code.

Key concepts: McEliece cryptosystem, Cryptosystem, Hybrid cryptosystem, Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem, Paillier cryptosystem, Public key cryptosystem, Code (set theory), Decoding methods

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