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May be give a better motivation for these codes. Furthermore, these codes are either "Geometric Goppa codes" or "algebraic geometry codes", which are better terms then the term "Goppa codes" which usually refers to the codes used in the classical McEliece cryptosystem.
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"An undergraduate thesis on Algebraic Geometric Coding Theory" gives a 404