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Effective attack on the McEliece cryptosystem based on Reed-Muller codes

М. А. Бородин, Ivan Chizhov

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Abstract McEliece cryptosystem is an public-key cryptosystem; its security is based on the complexity of decoding problem for an arbitrary error-correcting code. V. M. Sidel’nikov in 1994 suggested to construct the cryptosystem on the base of binary Reed-Muller code. In 2007 L. Minder and A. Shokrollahi had designed a structural attack on theMcEliece cryptosystem based on the Reed-Muller codes.Herewe improve their attack and suggest a polynomial attack on the McEliece cryptosystem based on Reed-Muller codes RM(r, m) such that GCD(r,m − 1) = 1.

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Abstract McEliece cryptosystem is an public-key cryptosystem; its security is based on the complexity of decoding problem for an arbitrary error-correcting code. V. M. Sidel’nikov in 1994 suggested to construct the cryptosystem on the base of binary Reed-Muller code. In 2007 L. Minder and A. Shokrollahi had designed a structural attack on theMcEliece cryptosystem based on the Reed-Muller codes.Herewe improve their attack and suggest a polynomial attack on the McEliece cryptosystem based on Reed-Muller codes RM(r, m) such that GCD(r,m − 1) = 1.

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Abstract McEliece cryptosystem is an public-key cryptosystem; its security is based on the complexity of decoding problem for an arbitrary error-correcting code. V. M. Sidel’nikov in 1994 suggested to construct the cryptosystem on the base of binary Reed-Muller code. In 2007 L. Minder and A. Shokrollahi had designed a structural attack on theMcEliece cryptosystem based on the Reed-Muller codes.Herewe improve their attack and suggest a polynomial attack on the McEliece cryptosystem based on Reed-Muller codes RM(r, m) such that GCD(r,m − 1) = 1.

Key concepts: McEliece cryptosystem, Cryptosystem, Mathematics, Reed–Solomon error correction, Decoding methods, Code (set theory), Construct (python library), Hybrid cryptosystem

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