Interleaved Prange: A New Generic Decoder for Interleaved Codes

Anmoal Porwal, Lukas Holzbaur, Hedongliang Liu, Julian Renner, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Violetta Weger

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Abstract

Due to the recent challenges in post-quantum cryptography, several new approaches for code-based cryptography have been proposed. For example, a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem based on interleaved codes was proposed. In order to deem such new settings secure, we first need to understand and analyze the complexity of the underlying problem, in this case the problem of decoding a random interleaved code. A simple approach to decode such codes, would be to randomly choose a vector in the row span of the received matrix and run a classical information set decoding algorithm on this erroneous codeword. In this paper, we propose a new generic decoder for interleaved codes, which is an adaption of the classical idea of information set decoding by Prange and perfectly fits the interleaved setting. We then analyze the cost of the new algorithm and compare it to the other approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPost-Quantum Cryptography - 13th International Workshop, PQCrypto 2022, Proceedings
EditorsJung Hee Cheon, Thomas Johansson
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages69-88
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783031172335
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event13th International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 28 Sep 202230 Sep 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13512 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period28/09/2230/09/22

Keywords

  • Code-based cryptography
  • Information set decoding
  • Interleaved codes

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