Abstract
It is shown that the only modification of the Berlekamp algorithm required to decode the class of alternant codes consists of a linear transformation of the syndromes prior to the application of the algorithm. Since alternant codes include all Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Goppa codes, the Chien-Choy generalized BCH codes, and the generalized Srivastava codes, all of these can be decoded with no increase in complexity over BCH decoding.

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