May 18 – 22, 2026
Virginia Tech
America/New_York timezone

Relative generalized Hamming weights and their applications in cryptography

May 21, 2026, 11:00 AM
25m
Goodwin Hall 125 (Virginia Tech)

Goodwin Hall 125

Virginia Tech

Minisymposium Talk Code-based Cryptography Code-based Cryptography

Speaker

Rodrigo San-José (Virginia Tech)

Description

The relative generalized Hamming weights of a nested pair of linear codes are a generalization of the minimum distance. We will see how these parameters characterize the security of ramp secret sharing schemes, and how this can be adapted for private information retrieval. The computation of these parameters for a linear code is NP-hard in general, and we will study the most efficient current algorithm to compute them for any nested pair of linear codes.

Some of these results are joint work with Diego Ruano and Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pajares.

Author

Rodrigo San-José (Virginia Tech)

Co-authors

Prof. Diego Ruano (University of Valladolid) Mr Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pajares (University of Valladolid)

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