Quasi-Polynomial Time Attack Hits Classic McEliece Encryption

Researchers published an updated paper describing a quasi-polynomial time distinguisher and heuristic key-recovery attack against the McEliece public-key cryptosystem, affecting all Classic McEliece parameter sets in NIST's standardization process.

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