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==History==

Attribute-based encryption is a generalisation<ref name="Herranz2017">{{cite journal | last1 = Herranz | first1 = Javier | title = Attribute‐based encryption implies identity‐based encryption | journal = IET Information Security | date = November 2017 | volume = 11 | issue = 6 | pages = 332–337 | issn = 1751-8709 | eissn = 1751-8717 | doi = 10.1049/iet-ifs.2016.0490 | pmid = | url = }}</ref> of [[Identity-based encryption]], first proposed by [[Adi Shamir]]<ref name="Shamir pp. 47–53">{{cite book | last=Shamir | first=Adi | title=Advances in Cryptology | chapter=Identity-Based Cryptosystems and Signature Schemes | publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | publication-place=Berlin, Heidelberg | isbn=978-3-540-15658-1 | doi=10.1007/3-540-39568-7_5 | pages=47–53 | date=1984}}</ref> in 1984, without a specific solution or proof. In 2004 [[Amit Sahai]] and [[Brent Waters]]<ref>Amit Sahai and Brent Waters, Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption ''[http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/086 Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2004/086]'' (2004)</ref> published a solution, improved in 2006 by Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai and Brent Waters.<ref name=":0">Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai and Brent Waters, Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data ''[https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/309.pdf ACM CCS (2006)]''</ref> [[Melissa Chase]] and other researchers have further proposed attribute-based encryption with multiple authorities who jointly generate users' private keys.<ref>[[Melissa Chase]], Multi-authority Attribute-Based Encryption ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-70936-7_28 TCC (2007)]''</ref><ref>[[Melissa Chase]] and Sherman S.M. Chow, Improving privacy and security in multi-authority attribute-based encryption ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1653678 ACM CCS (2009)]''</ref><ref>Taeho Jung, Xiang-Yang Li, Zhiguo Wan, and Meng Wan, Privacy preserving cloud data access with multi-authorities ''[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6567070&tag=1 IEEE INFOCOM (2013)]''</ref><ref>Taeho Jung, Xiang-Yang Li, Zhiguo Wan, and Meng Wan, Control Cloud Dhttps://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/CCS%2706%20-%20Attributed-based%20encryption%20for%20fine-grained%20access%20control%20of%20encrypted%20data.pdfata Access Privilege and Anonymity With Fully Anonymous Attribute-Based Encryption ''[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6951492 Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2015)]''</ref><ref>Allisso Lewko and Brent Waters, Decentralizing Attribute-Based Encryption ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-20465-4_31 EUROCRYPT (2011)]''</ref><ref>Sascha Muller, Stefan Katzenbeisser, and Claudia Eckert, On multi-authority ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption ''[http://143.248.27.21/mathnet/thesis_file/14_B08-591.pdf Bull. Korean Math. Soc. 46 (2009)]''</ref>

== Types of attribute-based encryption schemes ==