Values of m, n, t??

[rkarn]

I need m>8, n>20 and t>3

I run the following command to generate keys:
python3 mceliece.py -v gen 8 20 3 PRIV_KEY_FILE PUB_KEY_FILE

I get below error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/mceliece/mceliece.py", line 147, in
generate(int(args['M']), int(args['N']), int(args['T']), args['PRIV_KEY_FILE'], args['PUB_KEY_FILE'])
File "/root/mceliece/mceliece.py", line 44, in generate
mceliece.generate_random_keys()
File "/root/mceliece/mceliece/mceliececipher.py", line 37, in generate_random_keys
self.S_inv = self.S.inv()
File "/root/mceliece/mceliece/mathutils.py", line 503, in inv
eye = flint.nmod_mat(self.arr.shape[0], self.arr.shape[1],
IndexError: tuple index out of range

How to set the correct combination of m,n,t?

[byAhro]

Hi, I see that you have got the same problem like me. I found out that there is a few options to generate the pair of the keys but only one is giving fine plainText after decryption. Is there any solution to use the parametrs like from article which I am attaching belove?
https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/271.pdf

[rkarn]

Hi @byAhro , in the paper you attached, the value of parameters are huge. My machine is unable to accept that. I tried with comparatively smaller value as follows:

m=20; n = 1024; t=50

It falls into infinite loop and eventually I had to terminate the program.

[ammuiyer]

Was this ever figured out?