Overview
During the spring semester of 2018 we will run a reading group on code-based cryptography. The primary source for this material will be the chapter Code-Based Cryptography by Overbeck and Sendrier from the text Post-Quantum Cryptography (Bernstein, Buchmann, and Dahmen, 2009), supported by original references and more recent publications. Notes will be posted on this website as they are available.
Location and Time:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 – 12:15 in Martin E-004
Participants:
- Travis Baumbaugh (grad)
- Jim Brown (faculty)
- Ben Case (grad)
- Bobby Fabrizio (grad)
- Hugh Geller (grad)
- James Gossell (grad)
- Kevin James (faculty)
- Rutuja Kshirsagar (grad)
- Huixi Li (grad)
- Hiram Lopez (faculty)
- Felice Manganiello (faculty)
- Gretchen Matthews (faculty)
- Aidan Murphy (grad)
- Sloan Nietert (undergrad)
- Andrew Pangia (grad)
- Malcolm Rupert (faculty)
- Kristen Savary (grad)
- Changan Zhao (faculty)
Lectures:
- Introduction to McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems
- The problem of decoding general linear codes
- The problem of determining code equivalence
- Information set decoding
- Distinguishability of some Goppa codes
- Classic McEliece NIST proposal
- List decoding and McEliece
- Distinguishability of some algebraic geometry codes
- Subfield subcodes of algebraic geometry codes
- Codes with locality in McEliece