From Rerandtopia to Interceptopia, the Anamorphic Encryption Saga Rises
Ivan Visconti
Nowadays, governments are world-wide pushing towards building infrastructures to intercept, decrypt and prevent communications among citizens with the goal of catching criminals.
The recent notion of anamorphic encryption proposed by Persiano et al. [Eurocrypt 2022] faces the risks of abuses derived from such infrastructures that could be maliciously leveraged to realize the phantom menace of large-scale mass-surveillance programs.
Several recent papers showed positive results on the existence