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Information Encryption for Email, Files, Documents and Databases

Voltage solutions are built upon two innovations of cryptography - Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) and Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE). These innovations open up new ways to securely communicate, new ways to protect sensitive employee and customer data to prevent identity theft and enable many many different ways of encrypting information.

Identity-Based Encryption

In 1984, Adi Shamir, one of the inventors of the well-known RSA public key system, proposed that using identity directly as a public key, rather than relying on certificates, might be the best approach for simplifying public key cryptography. For the next two decades, numerous attempts were made to provide an Identity-Based Encryption algorithm, but no practical solution was found.

In 2000, Dr. Dan Boneh and Dr. Matt Franklin achieved a mathematical breakthrough and invented the first practical Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) system. Their scheme uses bilinear mappings, known as Weil and Tate pairings, on elliptic curves to obtain an algorithm that can be used to turn a simple, well-recognized identity into a public/private key pair. From these powerful mathematics, comes an elegant mechanism to secure email, files, documents and databases – online and offline, without the need to pre-register recipients.