Extension of Overbeck's Attack for Gabidulin Based Cryptosystems
Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann, Kyle Marshall, Joachim Rosenthal·2015-11-05·via cs.IT updates on arXiv.org
We present a new attack against cryptosystems based on the rank metric. Our attack allows us to cryptanalyze two variants of the GPT cryptosystem which were designed to resist the attack of Overbeck.