Fine-Grained Cryptography: A New Frontier?

Alon Rosen

Paper 2020/442

Fine-Grained Cryptography: A New Frontier?

Alon Rosen

Abstract

Fine-grained cryptography is concerned with adversaries that are only moderately more powerful than the honest parties. We will survey recent results in this relatively underdeveloped area of study and examine whether the time is ripe for further advances in it.

Note: Invited talk at EUROCRYPT 2020

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: A minor revision of an IACR publication in EUROCRYPT 2020
Keywords: Fine-grained cryptography Merkle puzzles proofs of work
Contact author(s): alon rosen @ idc ac il
History: 2020-04-19: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2020/442
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/442,
      author = {Alon Rosen},
      title = {Fine-Grained Cryptography: A New Frontier?},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/442},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/442}
}