IACR News item: 16 February 2014
Alain Couvreur, Ayoub Otmani, Jean-Pierre Tillich
ePrint Report
We present a polynomial time structural attack against the McEliece system based on Wild Goppa codes from a quadratic finite field extension. This attack uses the fact that such codes can be distinguished from random codes to compute some filtration, that is to say a family of nested subcodes which will reveal their secret algebraic description.
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