A new structural attack for GPT and variants

  • Authors:
  • Raphael Overbeck

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Cryptography and Computer Algebra Group, GK Electronic Commerce, TU-Darmstadt

  • Venue:
  • Mycrypt'05 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Progress in Cryptology in Malaysia
  • Year:
  • 2005

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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, which recovers an alternative private key. Our attack is applicable to all variants proposed so far and breaks some of them completely.