Sloppy Alice Attacks! Adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks on the McEliece public-key cryptosystem (original) (raw)

We introduce new adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks, called Sloppy Alic Attacks, in which a malicious sender or an adaptive eavesdropper Eve has an oracle which allows her to find out whether a sent encrypted message does, or does not, decrypt properly. From this information she can extract the plaintext that was encrypted. In this paper we show that the McEliece public-key cryptosystem is susceptible to Sloppy Alice attacks.

Name The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
Publisher Springer
Volume 687
ISSN (Print) 0893-3405
Workshop Information, coding and mathematics
Country/Territory United States
City Pasadena
Period 24/05/02 → 25/05/02