The Code Equivalence Problem and Its Applications to Cryptography
摘要
Code-based cryptographic schemes are a very popular quantum-safe alternative to current standards. Yet, designing efficient code-based signatures is a challenging task, and current proposals are still far from the target set by other post-quantum primitives (e.g. lattice-based). In this survey, we describe a code-based approach for signing, based on the hardness of the code equivalence problem. We recall the best known techniques for solving the code equivalence problem known to date, and we discuss its theoretical complexity.