DocumentCode
2057307
Title
Short McEliece-based digital signatures
Author
Courtois, Nicolas ; Finiasz, Matthieu ; Sendrier, Nicolas
Author_Institution
Projet Codes, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France
fYear
2002
fDate
2002
Firstpage
265
Abstract
The McEliece public key encryption scheme was invented in 1978. Although it is very secure (all known attacks are still exponential) it has not been very successful as far as applications are concerned. We show how this scheme could be used for a new application: short digital signatures.
Keywords
Goppa codes; message authentication; public key cryptography; Goppa code; McEliece public key encryption; secure signature scheme; short digital signatures; Counting circuits; Decoding; Digital signatures; Error correction codes; Information security; Parity check codes; Public key; Public key cryptography;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7501-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023537
Filename
1023537
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