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'''ID-based encryption''', or '''identity-based encryption''' ('''IBE)'''), is an important primitive of [[ID-based cryptography]]. As such it is a type of [[public-key encryption]] in which the [[public key]] of a user is some unique information about the identity of the user (e.g. a user's email address). This means that a sender who has access to the public parameters of the system can encrypt a message using e.g. the text-value of the receiver's name or email address as a key. The receiver obtains its decryption key from a central authority, which needs to be trusted as it generates secret keys for every user.

ID-based encryption was proposed by [[Adi Shamir ]] in 1984.<ref name="iseca.org">Adi Shamir, [http://www.iseca.org/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?cid=56&lid=33 Identity-Based Cryptosystems and Signature Schemes]. ''Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of CRYPTO 84, Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', 7:47--53, 1984</ref> He was however only able to give an instantiation of [[ID-based cryptography|identity-based signatures]]. Identity-based encryption remained an open problem for many years.

ID-based encryption was proposed by [[Adi Shamir ]] in 1984.<ref name="iseca.org">Adi Shamir, [http://www.iseca.org/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?cid=56&lid=33 Identity-Based Cryptosystems and Signature Schemes]. ''Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of CRYPTO 84, Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', 7:47--53, 1984</ref> He was however only able to give an instantiation of [[ID-based cryptography|identity-based signatures]]. Identity-based encryption remained an open problem for many years.

The [[pairing-based cryptography|pairing]]-based [[Boneh–Franklin scheme]]<ref>Dan Boneh, Matthew K. Franklin, Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing ''Advances in Cryptology - Proceedings of CRYPTO 2001'' (2001)</ref> and [[Cocks IBE scheme|Cocks's encryption scheme]]<ref>Clifford Cocks, [http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/crypto/classes/6.876/papers/cocks-IBE.pdf An Identity Based Encryption Scheme Based on Quadratic Residues], ''Proceedings of the 8th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding'', 2001</ref> based on [[quadratic residue]]s both solved the IBE problem in 2001.