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Functional Encryption and Its Impact on Cryptography

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Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2014)

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Functional encryption is a novel paradigm for public-key encryption that enables both fine-grained access control and selective computation on encrypted data, as is necessary to protect big, complex data in the cloud. In this article, we provide a brief introduction to functional encryption, and an overview of its overarching impact on the field of cryptography.

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    Hoeteck Wee

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Wee, H. (2014). Functional Encryption and Its Impact on Cryptography. In: Abdalla, M., De Prisco, R. (eds) Security and Cryptography for Networks. SCN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_18

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