Increasing Index Sizes for Information Set Decoding Algorithms
摘要
The security of code-based cryptography is largely based on the effectiveness of information set decoding (ISD) algorithms. This paper introduces a modification to Stern’s algorithm that reduces average decryption time by at least \(14.2\%\) for a code of length 1024, dimension 524 capable of correcting 50 errors. We accomplish this by adding 3 extra columns to the columns reduced to the identity matrix and performing extra row reductions that manipulate the matrix into a form that still allows Stern’s algorithm to be run.