Development of Cryptosystem Based on Forward Error Correction Codes

Student: Nekhoroshkov Dmitrii

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Infocommunication Technologies and Systems (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper describes various classes of error-correcting codes that are considered as candidates for modification of the asymmetric McEliece cryptosystem, suggests decryption methods for them, advantages and disadvantages of implementing them. Modifications of the McEliece cryptosystem based on these error-correcting codes are also described, and the software implementation of some functions of the cryptosystem in the Python programming language is provided.

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