Paper 2012/026 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2012/026 ↗

Decoding Random Binary Linear Codes in $2^{n/20}$: How $1+1=0$ Improves Information Set Decoding

Anja Becker
Antoine Joux
Alexander May
Alexander Meurer
Abstract

Decoding random linear codes is a well studied problem with many applications in complexity theory and cryptography. The security of almost all coding and LPN/LWE-based schemes relies on the assumption that it is hard to decode random linear codes. Recently, there has been progress in improving the running time of the best decoding algorithms for binary random codes. The ball collision technique of Bernstein, Lange and Peters lowered the complexity of Stern's information set decoding algorithm to $2^{0.0556n}$. Using {\it representations} this bound was improved to $2^{0.0537n}$ by May, Meurer and Thomae. We show how to further increase the number of representations and propose a new information set decoding algorithm with running time $2^{0.0494n}$.

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2012-01-20: last updated
2012-01-20: published
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https://ia.cr/2012/026
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@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/026,
      author = {Anja Becker and Antoine Joux and Alexander May and Alexander Meurer},
      title = {Decoding Random Binary Linear Codes in $2^{n/20}$: How $1+1=0$ Improves Information Set Decoding},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/026},
      year = {2012},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/026}
}
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