Shweta Agrawal@ IDC on Towards a Unified Theory of Cryptographic Agents
In recent years there has been a fantastic boom of increasingly sophisticated “cryptographic objects” — identity-based encryption, fully-homomorphic encryption, functional encryption, and most recently, various forms of obfuscation. These objects often come in various flavors of security, and as these constructions have grown in number, complexity and inter-connectedness, the relationships between them have become increasingly confusing.