An Improved Code-Based Encryption Scheme with a New Construction of Public Key

  • Yuzhuang Zhou
  • , Peng Zeng*
  • , Siyuan Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There are substantial variants of McEliece cryptosystem from coding theory. In general, these attempts always utilize two basic ways to enhance performance of the original cryptosystem: reducing the public key size and improving the efficiency and ability of decoding algorithms. Meanwhile, security level is the goal that has always been pursued. Sometimes we need to sacrifice some advantage to get other claims. Recently, Baldi et al. proposed a novel scheme (BBCRS scheme for short) in which the public code is no longer permutation equivalent to the secret code and this distinctly increases the security level. In this paper, we propose a new construction of public key following the idea of BBCRS scheme. The improvement enhances the correction capability and results in a better protection of the secret code. We also discuss some known attacks in detail as in BBCRS scheme which shows that our new scheme is secure under the current means of attack.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence ATCI 2019 - Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence
EditorsJemal H. Abawajy, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Rafiqul Islam, Zheng Xu, Mohammed Atiquzzaman
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages959-968
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030251277
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence, ATCI 2019 - Huainan, China
Duration: 22 Jun 201924 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1017
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence, ATCI 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHuainan
Period22/06/1924/06/19

Keywords

  • Code-based cryptography
  • McEliece cryptosystem
  • Post-quantum cryptography
  • Public key encryption

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