Public key cryptography and error correcting codes as Ising models

David Saad; Yoshiyuki Kabashima; Tatsuto Murayama

doi:10.1063/1.1358168

Public key cryptography and error correcting codes as Ising models

David Saad, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tatsuto Murayama

Aston University

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Abstract

We employ the methods of statistical physics to study the performance of Gallager type error-correcting codes. In this approach, the transmitted codeword comprises Boolean sums of the original message bits selected by two randomly-constructed sparse matrices. We show that a broad range of these codes potentially saturate Shannon's bound but are limited due to the decoding dynamics used. Other codes show sub-optimal performance but are not restricted by the decoding dynamics. We show how these codes may also be employed as a practical public-key cryptosystem and are of competitive performance to modern cyptographical methods.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Disordered and complex systems
Editors	L.P. Hughston P. Sollich, R.F. Streater
Place of Publication	New york
Publisher	American Institute of Physics
Pages	89-94
Number of pages	6
Volume	553
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1358168
Publication status	Published - 9 Feb 2001
Event	Disordered and Complex Systems - Duration: 9 Feb 2001 → 9 Feb 2001

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Other	Disordered and Complex Systems
Period	9/02/01 → 9/02/01

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Keywords

statistical physics
error correcting codes
sparse matrices
Shannon's bound
decoding dynamics
public-key cryptosystem
cyptographical

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