Introduction to Encryption/Decryption

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Overview

You can use Lit for decentralized encryption with your storage provider of choice. With Lit, you can encrypt content client-side and define access control conditions (ACCs) to provision access rights to users who meet the conditions you set.

Lit supports the use of both on and off-chain data when defining ACCs, examples including locking content behind:

• Membership within a particular DAO
• Ownership of a particular ERC-721 or ERC-20 token
• The result of any smart contract call
• The result of any API call, such as a follow on Twitter

Features

1. Access Control Conditions can be defined using state from most EVM chains, Cosmos, and Solana.. View the full list here.
2. AND + OR operators (boolean logic) can be used to combine any of the supported conditions listed above.
3. Storage provider of choice: use your preferred storage solution, including IPFS, Arweave, Ceramic, or even a centralized provider, like AWS.

Resources

Learn how you can integrate decentralized access control with Lit into your own product:

1. Quick Start Guide
2. Storing Private Data on ComposeDB
3. Encrypting Data on Arweave Using Lit and Irys
4. Basic EVM Conditions
5. Access Control Using Off-Chain Inputs

Examples and Use Cases

1. Private data for web3 social
2. Token-gated video streaming
3. Encrypted token metadata
4. Persistent and private data marketplaces
5. Decentralized content discovery