American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Number theoretic public-key solutions, currently used in many applications worldwide, will be subject to various quantum attacks, making them less attractive for longer-term use. Certain group theoretic constructs are now showing promise in providing quantum-resistant cryptographic primitives, and may provide suitable alternatives for those looking to address known quantum attacks. In this paper, we introduce a new protocol called a Meta Key Agreement and Authentication Protocol (MKAAP) that has some characteristics of a public-key solution and some of a shared-key solution. Specifically, it has the deployment benefits of a public-key system, allowing two entities that have never met before to authenticate without requiring real-time access to a third-party, but does require secure provisioning of key material from a trusted key distribution system (similar to a symmetric system) prior to deployment. We then describe a specific MKAAP instance, the Ironwood MKAAP, discuss its security, and show how it resists certain quantum attacks such as Shor's algorithm or Grover's quantum search algorithm. We also show Ironwood implemented on several "internet of things" (IoT devices), measure its performance, and show how it performs significantly better than ECC using fewer device resources.

We investigate a class of linear codes by choosing a proper defining set and determine their complete weight enumerators and weight enumerators. These codes have at most three weights and some of them are almost optimal so that they are suitable for applications in secret sharing schemes. This is a supplement of the results raised by Wang et al. (2017) and Kong et al. (2019).

McNie [8] is a code-based public key encryption scheme submitted to the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization [10] as a candidate. In this paper, we present Dual-Ouroboros, an improvement of McNie, which can be seen as a dual version of the Ouroboros-R protocol [1], another candidate to the NIST competition. This new improved protocol permits, first, to avoid an attack proposed by Gaborit [7] and second permits to benefit from a reduction security to a standard problem (as the original Ouroboros protocol).

This paper is concerned with the construction of algebraic-geometric (AG) codes defined from GGS curves. It is of significant use to describe bases for the Riemann-Roch spaces associated with some rational places, which enables us to study multi-point AG codes. Along this line, we characterize explicitly the Weierstrass semigroups and pure gaps by an exhaustive computation for the basis of Riemann-Roch spaces from GGS curves. In addition, we determine the floor of a certain type of divisor and investigate the properties of AG codes. Multi-point codes with excellent parameters are found, among which, a presented code with parameters \begin{document}$ [216,190,\geqslant 18] $\end{document} over \begin{document}$ \mathbb{F}_{64} $\end{document} yields a new record.