Anamorphic Encryption, Revisited

ePrint Report: Anamorphic Encryption, Revisited

Fabio Banfi, Konstantin Gegier, Martin Hirt, Ueli Maurer

Anamorphic Encryption, recently introduced by Persiano, Phan, and Yung (EUROCRYPT 2022) is a new cryptographic paradigm challenging the conventional notion of an adversary. In particular they consider the receiver-anamorphic setting, where a dictator is able to obtain the receiver's secret key of a well-established public-key encryption (PKE) scheme, and they ask the question whether the sender can still embed covert messages in a way which the dictator …

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