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Many resources talk about the benefit of Proxy Re-encryption (PRE) and I also implement my PRE using Elliptic Curve key pair. But after I set up Global parameters, I can encrypt very small data maybe less than 1KB. My question is with EC key pair normally, can we encrypt large data maybe about 10MB?

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    $\begingroup$ Usually proxy re-encryption is used to encrypt smaller data like a symmetric encryption key, not a full message or file $\endgroup$
    – Natanael
    Feb 18, 2019 at 10:50

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Normally the data is not encrypted under PRE directly. The sender can encrypt the data using a random symmetric key using a secure symmetric cipher (e.g. AES), then encrypts the symmetric key under the sender's PRE key. The proxy can re-encrypt this ciphertext into a new ciphertext such that the receiver can decrypt it.

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  • $\begingroup$ Could you please tell how exactly this trick is happening? $\endgroup$
    – milo
    Apr 8, 2020 at 13:57

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