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Code-Based Cryptography: A Comparative Study of Key Sizes

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Advanced Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICACIS 2022)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1749))

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In today’s era, cryptography is used in our daily life such as health, finance, armed forces and entertainment, etc. Cryptography secured data and communications by applying mathematical transformations. Cryptography provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad). Codes have the capacity to encrypt and transmit data, which inspires the idea of code-based cryptography. The combination of characteristics of codes and traditional cryptography provides security against quantum attacks. In this chapter, we have reviewed the state of the art of code-based cryptography and the usefulness of rank-metric codes in the reduction of key size. We have also reviewed different code-based cryptosystems based on different types of codes, which help in reducing the key size without degrading the security level.

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    Manoj Kumar Singh

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  3. The Neotia University, Sarisha, India

    Ankush Ghosh

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Singh, M.K. (2023). Code-Based Cryptography: A Comparative Study of Key Sizes. In: Shaw, R.N., Paprzycki, M., Ghosh, A. (eds) Advanced Communication and Intelligent Systems. ICACIS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25088-0_32

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