LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)
Doi
Abstract
In all existing encryption systems, the owner of the master secret key has the ability to decrypt all ciphertexts. In this work, we propose a new notion of pre-constrained encryption (PCE) where the owner of the master secret key does not have "full" decryption power. Instead, its decryption power is constrained in a pre-specified manner during the system setup.
We present formal definitions and constructions of PCE, and discuss societal applications and implications to some well-studied cryptographic primitives
