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A new structural attack for GPT and variants
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Abstract: | In this paper we look at the Gabidulin version of the McEliece cryptosystem (GPT) and its variants. We propose a new polynomial time attack on the private key, which is applicable to all variants proposed so far, breaking some of them completely. |
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@misc{eprint-2005-12422, title={A new structural attack for GPT and variants}, booktitle={IACR Eprint archive}, keywords={public-key cryptography / gabidulin codes, code based cryptography}, url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/085}, note={ overbeck@cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de 12982 received 17 Mar 2005, last revised 31 May 2005, withdrawn 18 Jul 2005}, author={R. Overbeck}, year=2005 }