Cryptography and Communications (2020) 12:987–1009 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12095-020-00449-9 On decoding additive generalized twisted Gabidulin codes Wrya K. Kadir1 · Chunlei Li1 Received: 20 September 2019 / Accepted: 30 June 2020 /Published online: 23 July 2020 © The Author(s) 2020 Abstract In this paper, we consider an interpolation-based decoding algorithm for a large family of maximum rank distance codes, known as the additive generalized twisted Gabidulin codes, over the finite field Fqn for any prime power q. This paper extends the work of the con- ference paper Li and Kadir (2019) presented at the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography 2019, which decoded these codes over finite fields in characteristic two. Keywords Rank metric · Maximum rank distance codes · Gabidulin codes · Twisted Gabidulin codes · Generalized twisted Gabidulin codes Mathematics Subject Classification (2010) 94B35 · 68P30 · 11T71 · 11T06 1 Introduction Error correction codes with the rank metric have found applications in space-time coding [27], random network coding [44] and cryptography [12]. Many important properties of rank metric codes including the Singleton like bound were independently studied by Del- sarte [9] , Gabidulin [13] and Roth [38]. Codes that achieve this bound were called maximum rank distance (MRD) codes. The most famous sub-family of MRD codes are Gabidulin codes which is the rank metric analog of Reed-Solomon codes. They have been extensively studied in the literature [9, 12, 13, 25, 36, 38]. Finding new families of MRD codes has been an interesting research topic since the invention of Gabidulin codes. In [20, 39], the Frobenious automorphism in the Gabidulin codes were generalized to arbitrary automorphism and generalized Gabidulin (GG) codes Chunlei Li
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