Advanced Cryptography
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Deciding when to use Advanced Cryptography to protect your data
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Deciding when to use Advanced Cryptography to protect your data for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.
Contents
- Introduction
- What is Advanced Cryptography ?
- Homomorphic encryption:
- Private information retrieval:
- Multiparty computation:
- Zero-knowledge proofs:
- Private set intersection:
- Attribute-based encryption:
- Relation to Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- When to use Advanced Cryptography
- Define the problem statement
- Understand the threat model
- Explore possible solutions
- Examine the risks
- Identifying an appropriate solution
- Choosing an Advanced Cryptography solution
- Source links
Source and licence
National Cyber Security Centre
AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Advanced Cryptography” (28 April 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026