A SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE McELIECE PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOSYSTEM
René Govaerts, Bart Preneel, Joos P. L. Vandewalle, Antoon Bosselaers · 1992
A software implementation of the McEliece public-key cryptosystem is presented together with some existing and new extensions. The important disadvantages of the scheme are the data expansion, the size of the keys and the fact that no digital signatures are possible. However, even a software implementation results in a reasonable speed of encryption and decryption. Moreover, the system can be used as a combined scheme that ofiers a both encryption and error correction at the cost of a decreased security level.