| Title | Code Structures for Quantum Encryption and Decryption |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Sakk, Eric, Wang, Shuangbao Paul |
| Conference Name | 2021 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CSP) |
| Date Published | jan |
| Keywords | Decoding, encoding, Encryption, Galois fields, privacy, pubcrawl, quantum computing, quantum computing security, quantum transforms, Reed-Muller codes, Scalability, Signal processing, transform methods |
| Abstract | The paradigm of quantum computation has led to the development of new algorithms as well variations on existing algorithms. In particular, novel cryptographic techniques based upon quantum computation are of great interest. Many classical encryption techniques naturally translate into the quantum paradigm because of their well-structured factorizations and the fact that they can be phased in the form of unitary operators. In this work, we demonstrate a quantum approach to data encryption and decryption based upon the McEliece cryptosystem using Reed-Muller codes. This example is of particular interest given that post-quantum analyses have highlighted this system as being robust against quantum attacks. Finally, in anticipation of quantum computation operating over binary fields, we discuss alternative operator factorizations for the proposed cryptosystem. |
| DOI | 10.1109/CSP51677.2021.9357606 |
| Citation Key | sakk_code_2021 |
Code Structures for Quantum Encryption and Decryption