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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.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Functional encryption | Derived from | Public-key encryption | 1.00 | infobox |
| Functional encryption | Designers | Amit Sahai, Brent Waters, Dan Boneh, Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Kalai | 1.00 | infobox |
| Functional encryption | Related to | Homomorphic encryption | 1.00 | infobox |
| boolean formulae | instance of | most instantiations of Functional Encryption supported only limited function classes | 0.80 | text |
| Functional encryption | has application | Functional | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | has application | Identity-based | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | has application | IBE | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | has application | ABE | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | has application | In | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | has application | Similarly | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | related to Formal definition | More | 0.60 | section |
| Functional encryption | related to Formal definition | Setup | 0.60 | section |
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