[Resource Topic] 2024/1679: Information Set Decoding for Ring-Linear Code

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Title:
Information Set Decoding for Ring-Linear Code

Authors: Giulia Cavicchioni, Alessio Meneghetti, Giovanni Tognolini

Abstract:

Information set decoding (ISD) algorithms currently offer the most powerful tool to solve the two archetypal problems of coding theory, namely the Codeword Finding Problem and the Syndrome Decoding Problem. Traditionally, ISD have primarily been studied for linear codes over finite fields, equipped with the Hamming metric.
However, recently, other possibilities have also been explored. These algorithms have been adapted to different ambient spaces and metrics, such as the rank metric or the Lee metric over \mathbb Z_m.
In this paper, we show that it is possible to leverage the ring structure to construct more efficient decoding algorithms than those obtained by simply adapting ISD. In particular, we describe a framework that can be applied to any additive metric including Hamming and Lee, and that can be adapted to the case of the rank metric, providing algorithms to solve the two aforementioned problems, along with their average computational costs.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1679

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