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The concept of timed-released encryption with pre-open capability (TRE-PC) was introduced by Hwang, Yum and Lee. In a TRE-PC scheme, a message is encrypted in such a way that it can only be decrypted at a certain point in time or if the sender releases a piece of trapdoor information known as a pre-open key. This paper examines the security model for a TRE-PC scheme, demonstrates that a TRE-PC scheme can be constructed using a KEM–DEM approach, and provides an efficient example of a TRE-PC scheme.
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Dent, A.W., Tang, Q. (2007). Revisiting the Security Model for Timed-Release Encryption with Pre-open Capability. In: Garay, J.A., Lenstra, A.K., Mambo, M., Peralta, R. (eds) Information Security. ISC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4779. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75496-1_11
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