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Cryptographers report breakthrough against McEliece encryption scheme
Original: McEliece is one of the oldest post-quantum public key cryptosystems in existence. Since 1978, generations of cryptograph
Researchers have announced a significant breakthrough against the McEliece cryptosystem, a public key scheme proposed in 1978 and long considered one of the most durable candidates for post-quantum encryption. Decades of attacks had only limited success, but a reported solution to a McEliece challenge has now drawn attention from the cryptography community.
Why now: The reported first major cryptanalytic breakthrough in over forty years challenges assumptions about a key post-quantum encryption scheme.
McEliece cryptosystemTII-254 challenge
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- McEliece is one of the oldest post-quantum public key cryptosystems in existence. Since 1978, generations of cryptographers attacked it with only limited success. But TIL since this summer, there's a significant breakthrough. "We report on the solution to the TII-254 McEliece… · niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be · 3
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