Categoria: Seminari e Convegni
Stato: Corrente
16 february 2026 at 10.00 am

Code-based Cryptography

This course will explore code-based cryptography, starting from its unofficial birth with the McEliece cryptosystem, and arriving to modern-day schemes now under consideration at NIST to become new Post-Quantum standards. The course will include all relevant coding theory background

Course syllabus:
•Introduction to coding theory (linear codes, generator and parity-check matrices, error correction).
•McEliece cryptosystem and its security foundations.
•Variants and improvements of the McEliece scheme.
•Code-based digital signatures and related primitives.
•NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization process and code-based candidates.
•Advanced topics and current research directions.