New Technique for Decoding Codes in the Rank Metric and Its Cryptography Applications

  • Authors:
  • A. V. Ourivski;T. Johansson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Problems of Information Transmission
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present two new algorithms for decoding an arbitrary (n, k) linear rank distance code over GF(qN). These algorithms correct errors of rank r in O((Nr)3q(r−1)(k+1)) and O((k + r)3r3q(r−1)(N−r)) operations in GF(q) respectively. The algorithms give one of the most efficient attacks on public-key cryptosystems based on rank codes, as well as on the authentication scheme suggested by Chen.