Overview
- Describes the fundamentals of QC-LDPC code-based cryptography
- Includes a tutorial description of the first QC-LDPC code-based cryptosystems
- Provides the basics required for a better understanding of the scientific literature on the topic
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BRIEFSELECTRIC)
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This book describes the fundamentals of cryptographic primitives based on quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes, with a special focus on the use of these codes in public-key cryptosystems derived from the McEliece and Niederreiter schemes. In the first part of the book, the main characteristics of QC-LDPC codes are reviewed, and several techniques for their design are presented, while tools for assessing the error correction performance of these codes are also described. Some families of QC-LDPC codes that are best suited for use in cryptography are also presented. The second part of the book focuses on the McEliece and Niederreiter cryptosystems, both in their original forms and in some subsequent variants. The applicability of QC-LDPC codes in these frameworks is investigated by means of theoretical analyses and numerical tools, in order to assess their benefits and drawbacks in terms of system efficiency and security. Several examples of QC-LDPC code-based public key cryptosystems are presented, and their advantages over classical solutions are highlighted. The possibility of also using QC-LDPC codes in symmetric encryption schemes and digital signature algorithms is also briefly examined.
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Book Title: QC-LDPC Code-Based Cryptography
Authors: Marco Baldi
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02556-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02555-1Published: 19 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02556-8Published: 02 May 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-8112
Series E-ISSN: 2191-8120
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 120
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Coding and Information Theory, Systems and Data Security