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Berlekamp, E. R.

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On the inherent intractability of certain coding problems

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.

Berlekamp, E. R.