We give a polynomial time attack on the McEliece public key cryptosystem based on algebraic geometry codes. Roughly speaking, this attacks runs in O(n 4 ) operations in F q , where n denotes the code length. Compared to previous attacks, allows to recover a decoding algorithm for the public key even for codes from high genus curves.
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