Speaker: Joachim Rosenthal

Title:An Overview to Code Based Cryptography

Abstract: Code based Cryptography had its beginning in 1978 when Robert McEliece demonstrated how the hardness of decoding a general linear code up to half the minimum distance can be used as the basis for a public key crypto system. At the time the proposed system was not implemented in practice as the required public key was relatively large. With the realization that a quantum computer would make many practically used systems obsolete coding based systems became an important research subject in the area of post-quantum cryptography. In this talk we will provide an overview to the subject.