Identity-based encryption and beyond

The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) held a workshop, entitled 'Applications of Pairing-Based Cryptography, Identity-Based Encryption and Beyond' in June, 2008, focused on some aspects of identity-based Encryption (IBE). The workshop organized a series of 14 talks and two panel discussions, focusing on several aspects of IBE and related pairing-based public-key schemes, including the history of the technology, different applications, and potential developments. The workshop was attended by around 100 participants from a wide range of security vendors, government agencies, and academic institutions. The participants gathered information that IBE uses public key technology, after retrieving a set of public parameters from a public parameter server (PPS), enabling users to calculate any public keys that they need.