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| Designers | Amit Sahai, Brent Waters, Dan Boneh, Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Kalai |
| Derived from | Public-key encryption |
| Related to | Homomorphic encryption |
Functional encryption (FE) is a generalization of public-key encryption in which possessing a secret key allows one to learn a function of what the ciphertext is encrypting.