370 research outputs found
Structural Properties of Twisted Reed-Solomon Codes with Applications to Cryptography
We present a generalisation of Twisted Reed-Solomon codes containing a new
large class of MDS codes. We prove that the code class contains a large
subfamily that is closed under duality. Furthermore, we study the Schur squares
of the new codes and show that their dimension is often large. Using these
structural properties, we single out a subfamily of the new codes which could
be considered for code-based cryptography: These codes resist some existing
structural attacks for Reed-Solomon-like codes, i.e. methods for retrieving the
code parameters from an obfuscated generator matrix.Comment: 5 pages, accepted at: IEEE International Symposium on Information
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MWS and FWS Codes for Coordinate-Wise Weight Functions
A combinatorial problem concerning the maximum size of the (hamming) weight
set of an linear code was recently introduced. Codes attaining the
established upper bound are the Maximum Weight Spectrum (MWS) codes. Those
codes with the same weight set as are called Full
Weight Spectrum (FWS) codes. FWS codes are necessarily ``short", whereas MWS
codes are necessarily ``long". For fixed the values of for which
an -FWS code exists are completely determined, but the determination
of the minimum length of an -MWS code remains an open
problem. The current work broadens discussion first to general coordinate-wise
weight functions, and then specifically to the Lee weight and a Manhattan like
weight. In the general case we provide bounds on for which an FWS code
exists, and bounds on for which an MWS code exists. When specializing to
the Lee or to the Manhattan setting we are able to completely determine the
parameters of FWS codes. As with the Hamming case, we are able to provide an
upper bound on (the minimum length of Lee MWS codes),
and pose the determination of as an open problem. On the
other hand, with respect to the Manhattan weight we completely determine the
parameters of MWS codes.Comment: 17 page
Binary Linear Codes With Few Weights From Two-to-One Functions
In this paper, we apply two-to-one functions over b F 2n in two generic constructions of binary linear codes. We consider two-to-one functions in two forms: (1) generalized quadratic functions; and (2) (x 2t +x) e with gcd(t, n)=gcd(e, 2 n -1)=1. Based on the study of the Walsh transforms of those functions or their variants, we present many classes of linear codes with few nonzero weights, including one weight, three weights, four weights, and five weights. The weight distributions of the proposed codes with one weight and with three weights are determined. In addition, we discuss the minimum distance of the dual of the constructed codes and show that some of them achieve the sphere packing bound. Moreover, examples show that some codes in this paper have best-known parameters.acceptedVersio
On a question of Babadi and Tarokh
In a recent remarkable paper, Babadi and Tarokh proved the "randomness" of
sequences arising from binary linear block codes in the sense of spectral
distribution, provided that their dual distances are sufficiently large.
However, numerical experiments conducted by the authors revealed that Gold
sequences which have dual distance 5 also satisfy such randomness property.
Hence the interesting question was raised as to whether or not the stringent
requirement of large dual distances can be relaxed in the theorem in order to
explain the randomness of Gold sequences. This paper improves their result on
several fronts and provides an affirmative answer to this question
Characterisation of a family of neighbour transitive codes
We consider codes of length over an alphabet of size as subsets of
the vertex set of the Hamming graph . A code for which there
exists an automorphism group that acts transitively on the
code and on its set of neighbours is said to be neighbour transitive, and were
introduced by the authors as a group theoretic analogue to the assumption that
single errors are equally likely over a noisy channel. Examples of neighbour
transitive codes include the Hamming codes, various Golay codes, certain
Hadamard codes, the Nordstrom Robinson codes, certain permutation codes and
frequency permutation arrays, which have connections with powerline
communication, and also completely transitive codes, a subfamily of completely
regular codes, which themselves have attracted a lot of interest. It is known
that for any neighbour transitive code with minimum distance at least 3 there
exists a subgroup of that has a -transitive action on the alphabet over
which the code is defined. Therefore, by Burnside's theorem, this action is of
almost simple or affine type. If the action is of almost simple type, we say
the code is alphabet almost simple neighbour transitive. In this paper we
characterise a family of neighbour transitive codes, in particular, the
alphabet almost simple neighbour transitive codes with minimum distance at
least , and for which the group has a non-trivial intersection with the
base group of . If is such a code, we show that, up to
equivalence, there exists a subcode that can be completely described,
and that either , or is a neighbour transitive frequency
permutation array and is the disjoint union of -translates of .
We also prove that any finite group can be identified in a natural way with a
neighbour transitive code.Comment: 30 Page
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