Title
Extension of Overbeck's attack for Gabidulin-based cryptosystems.
Abstract
Cryptosystems based on codes in the rank metric were introduced in 1991 by Gabidulin, Paramanov, and Tretjakov (GPT) and have been studied as a promising alternative to cryptosystems based on codes in the Hamming metric. In particular, it was observed that the combinatorial solution for solving the rank analogy of the syndrome decoding problem appears significantly harder. Early proposals were often made with an underlying Gabidulin code structure. Gibson, in 1995, made a promising attack which was later extended by Overbeck in 2008 to cryptanalyze many of the systems in the literature. Improved systems were then designed to resist the attack of Overbeck and yet continue to use Gabidulin codes. In this paper, we generalize Overbeck’s attack to break the GPT cryptosystem for all possible parameter sets, and then extend the attack to cryptanalyze particular variants which explicitly resist the attack of Overbeck.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-017-0343-7
Des. Codes Cryptography
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cryptography,Public key cryptography,Rank metric,Gabidulin codes,Coding theory,94B05,11T71,14G50,81P94
Discrete mathematics,Cryptography,Cryptosystem,Coding theory,Hamming distance,Analogy,Decoding methods,Public-key cryptography,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
86
2
0925-1022
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann1315.96
Kyle Marshall2233.68
Joachim Rosenthal314217.90