Security-Related Comments Regarding McEliece's Public-Key Cryptosystem

  • Authors:
  • Carlisle M. Adams;Henk Meijer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '87 A Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

The optimal values for the parameters of the McEliece public key cryptosystem are computed. Using these values improves the cryptanalytic complexity of the system and decreases its data expansion. Secondly it is shown that the likelihood of the existence of more than one trapdoor in the system is very small.