the security problem of the encryption procedures in the public key cryptosystems ECPSZ and ECPS3 which are based on error correcting codes is discussed.It is pointed out that a permuation matrix can be found in time O(n3) from the public information of the cryptosystems
which can be used to decrypt the ciphertexts encrypted with the secret permutation matrix
where n is the mumber of rows(columns) in the secret permutaion matrix.Further