Coding and Cryptography
A special issue of Cryptography (ISSN 2410-387X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 3067
Special Issue Editors
Interests: post-quantum cryptography; code-based cryptography; multivariate cryptography; coding theory; finite fields; side-channel attacks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coding theory and cryptography are the two indispensable ingredients in the digital world today; coding theory provides us with reliable communication and storage, whereas cryptography adds security on top of these. In recent years, using coding theory within cryptography has gained momentum and has emerged as an exciting and fruitful research area, although its origins can be traced back to the seminal work of McEliece in the late 1970s. Schemes whose security is based on hard decoding problems known under the name of code-based cryptosystems are widely believed to be resistant to adversaries in possession of quantum computers and are one of the most solid constructions within the broader area of post-quantum cryptography. With quantum computers being a step closer to reality every day, accelerated research in all areas of coding theory can further greatly contribute to the theoretical understanding and to the improved performance of code-based cryptosystems.
In this Special Issue, we aim at collecting contributions on all aspects of coding theory and its applications that are relevant to cryptography, especially post-quantum cryptography. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Code-based cryptography: design, security proofs, cryptanalysis (classical and quantum), optimized software and hardware implementations, side-channel attacks and countermeasures, performance and security evaluation of standardization candidates;
- Coding theory: error-correcting codes (classical and quantum), properties of codes in different metrics (Hamming, Rank, Lee, etc.), LDPC codes, LRPC codes, decoding algorithms (improved, constant-time, etc.);
- Related topics: computational complexity results about problems in coding theory, use of codes in other cryptographic areas (such as lattice-based cryptography) and broader in security and privacy, related combinatorial problems, finite geometries and sequences.
Dr. Simona Samardjiska
Dr. Huaxiong Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- code-based cryptography
- post-quantum cryptography
- error-correcting codes
- hard decoding problems
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