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In this paper we look at the Gabidulin version of the McEliece cryptosystem (GPT) and its variants. We propose a new polynomial time attack, which recovers an alternative private key. Our attack is applicable to all variants proposed so far and breaks some of them completely.
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Overbeck, R. (2005). A New Structural Attack for GPT and Variants. In: Dawson, E., Vaudenay, S. (eds) Progress in Cryptology – Mycrypt 2005. Mycrypt 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3715. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11554868_5
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