2 papers
cs.IT2024
Weighted-Hamming Metric for Parallel Channels
Sebastian Bitzer, Alberto Ravagnani, Violetta Weger
Independent parallel q-ary symmetric channels are a suitable transmission model for several applications. The proposed weighted-Hamming metric is tailored to this setting and enabl…
cs.CR2023
Generic Decoding of Restricted Errors
Marco Baldi, Sebastian Bitzer, Alessio Pavoni +3
Several recently proposed code-based cryptosystems base their security on a slightly generalized version of the classical (syndrome) decoding problem. Namely, in the so-called rest…