What is the computational time to break McEliece on a quantum computer?
I've seen that polynomial time algorithms exist, but for special conditions. What about the general case?
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I've seen that polynomial time algorithms exist, but for special conditions. What about the general case?
Dinh, Moore, Russell have shown that the quantum algorithm (Quantum Fourier sampling) used to attack RSA and ElGamal does not work on McEliece-like crypto systems. (I think) this means, that there are no known algorithms on quantum computers that decrease the complexity of attacks on McEliece, and thus McEliece is just as safe post-quantum computers as it is now.