Pairing-Based Cryptography
Bilinear maps, IBE, and SNARKs.
Pairing-Based Cryptography. Bilinear maps, IBE, and SNARKs.
Foundations and canonical references
The standard treatments of pairing-based cryptography approach the subject from complementary angles. El, Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptography (2017) is the anchor reference for the subject and lays out the core definitions, theorems, and worked examples that practitioners return to.
Recent technical contributions
A handful of recent papers carry the methodological frontier of pairing-based cryptography forward. Identity-Based Encryption from the Weil Pairing (Boneh et al., 2003) is a primary reference for this area and develops new techniques or results that downstream work builds on.
Open methodological questions for pairing-based cryptography include sharpening the bridges between foundational theory and computational practice, extending classical results to broader or more structured settings, and integrating the techniques surveyed above with adjacent mathematical disciplines. The references listed in this page are the entry points that current work builds on.
Prerequisites
Sources
- paper · primary · 2003boneh-2003, franklin-matthew-2003
- textbook · primary · 2017Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptographyel-mrabet-2017, joye-2017
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