Functional encryption

Functional encryption
General
DesignersAmit Sahai, Brent Waters, Dan Boneh, Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Kalai
Derived fromPublic-key encryption
Related toHomomorphic 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.