Everything about Identity-based encryption

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Identity-based encryptionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Fuzzy Identity-Based Matchmaking Encryption and Its ApplicationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Hiding from the InternetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil PairingCited 1,680 times
5. Go sideways: Sakai–Kasahara schemeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Boneh–Franklin schemeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing

  Dan Boneh, Matthew Franklin · 2003 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 1,680 citations

• Chosen‐Ciphertext Security from Identity‐Based Encryption

  Dan Boneh, Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi · 2006 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 203 citations

• Anonymous Multireceiver Identity-Based Encryption

  Chun-I Fan, Ling-Ying Huang, Pei-Hsiu Ho · 2010 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 110 citations

• Multi-use unidirectional identity-based proxy re-encryption from hierarchical identity-based encryption

  Jun Shao, Zhenfu Cao · 2012 · Information Sciences · 57 citations

• Privacy-preserving identity-based broadcast encryption

  Junbeom Hur, Chanil Park, Seong Oun Hwang · 2012 · Information Fusion · 53 citations

• Improved Anonymous Multi-receiver Identity-Based Encryption

  H.-Y. Chien · 2011 · The Computer Journal · 47 citations

• Wildcarded Identity-Based Encryption

  Michel Abdalla, James Birkett, Dario Catalano · 2010 · Journal of Cryptology · 25 citations

• Attribute‐based encryption implies identity‐based encryption

  Javier Herranz · 2017 · IET Information Security · 23 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Fuzzy Identity-Based Matchmaking Encryption and Its Application

  Axin Wu, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 45 citations

• Identity-Certifying Authority-Aided Identity-Based Searchable Encryption Framework in Cloud Systems

  Zi-Yuan Liu, Yi-Fan Tseng, Raylin Tso · 2022 · IEEE Systems Journal · 30 citations

• Puncturable identity-based and attribute-based encryption from lattices

  Priyanka Dutta, Willy Susilo, Dung Hoang Duong · 2022 · Theoretical Computer Science · 25 citations

• Revocable identity‐based matchmaking encryption in the standard model

  Zhe Jiang, Xiwen Wang, Kai Zhang · 2023 · IET Information Security · 22 citations

• Identity-based proxy matchmaking encryption for cloud-based anonymous messaging systems

  Zhen Yan, Haipeng Qu, Xiaoshuai Zhang · 2023 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Hiding from the InternetMichael Bazzell · 2012
• Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
• Information and Communications SecurityTat Wing Chim · 2012
• 📕Everyday CryptographyKeith M. Martin · 2012
• Identity-Based EncryptionSanjit Chatterjee · 2011
• Information Security Practice and ExperienceRobert H. Deng · 2013
• Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and ApplicationsKui Ren · 2013
• Identity-Based EncryptionSanjit Chatterjee,Palash Sarkar · 2011

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