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On the inherent intractability of certain coding problems

Abstract

The fact that the general decoding problem for linear codes and the general problem of finding the weights of a linear code are both NP-complete is shown. This strongly suggests, but does not rigorously imply, that no algorithm for either of these problems which runs in polynomial time exists.

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Berlekamp, E. R., Mceliece, R. J., Van Tilborg, H. C. A.. 1978-05-01. On the inherent intractability of certain coding problems. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19780054314

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