Advances in Functional Encryption
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 2801
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, motivated by the growth of cloud computing researchers started to look at technologies that enable fine-grained control over encrypted data. In this direction, one of the most popular solutions is Functional Encryption (FE). It represents a generalization of (public-key) encryption that allows to compute functions or search over encrypted data. The development of functional encryption technologies will hopefully help in the future to reduce the gap between privacy and functionality in many digital services and products used daily by people.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the latest developments in functional encryption and related primitives and technologies. Both theoretical and applied works are welcome. Researchers in the field are invited to contribute with novel and unpublished works.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Functional encryption;
- Attribute-based encryption;
- Identity-based encryption;
- Software obfuscation;
- Searchable encryption;
- Encryption and digital signatures with special properties;
- Secure cloud computing
Dr. Vincenzo Iovino
Guest Editor
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