Questions tagged [hqc]
Hamming Quasi-Cyclic ( HQC) is an efficient encryption scheme based on coding theory,
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Requirements for security against multi-target attacks, for McEliece and other code-based cryptosystems?
This question is potentially relevant to NIST post-quantum cryptography standards, involving code-based cryptosystems such as McEliece, BIKE and HQC.
For these cryptosystems, it seems that an attacker ...
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HQC Duplicated Reed-Muller Codes
I'm having trouble with a definition in the HQC Specification.
From page 25f., in section 2.5.5.:
What does it mean to duplicate a code? Is it repeating each bit, similar to a repetition code?
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