Securing complex and networked systems has become increasingly important as these systems play an indispensable role in modern life at the turn of the - formation age. Concurrently, security of ubiquitous communication, data, and computing poses novel research challenges. Security is a multi-faceted problem due to the complexity of underlying hardware, software, and network inter- pendencies as well as human and social factors. It involves decision making on multiple levels and multiple time scales, given the limited resources available to both malicious attackers and administrators defending...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems, ESSoS 2011, held in Madrid, Italy, in February 2011. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 3 idea papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on model-based security, tools and mechanisms, Web security, security requirements engineering, and authorization.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, iNetSec 2010, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in March 2010. The 14 revised full papers presented together with an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of refereeing. The papers are organized in topical sections on scheduling, adversaries, protecting resources, secure processes, and security for clouds.

The 6th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Expe- ence (ISPEC 2010) was held in Seoul, Korea, May 12 13, 2010. The ISPEC conference series is an established forum that brings together - searchers and practitioners to provide a con?uence of new information security technologies, including their applications and their integration with IT systems invariousverticalsectors.Inpreviousyears, ISPEChastakenplaceinSingapore (2005), Hangzhou, China (2006), Hong Kong, China (2007), Sydney, Australia (2008), andXi an, China (2009).For all sessions, as this one, the conferencep-...

The recent development of quantum computing and quantum algorithmics has raised important questions in cryptography. With Shor s algorithm (Peter W. Shor, Polynomial-TimeAlgorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Lo- rithmsonaQuantumComputer, SIAMJ.Sci.Statist.Comput.41(2):303-332, 1999)thecollapseofsomeofthemostwidelyusedtechniquesfor securingdigital communications has become a possibility. In consequence, the everlasting duty of the cryptographic research community to keep an eye on alternative te- niques has become an urgent necessity. Post-quantum cryptography was born. Its primary...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2010, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2010.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptosystem, implementation, mobile security/secure coding, attack, biometrics, and secure protocol.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of two international workshops, the 5th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2010, and the 3rd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2010, collocated with the ESORICS 2010 symposium in Athens, Greece, in September 2010. The 9 revised full papers for DPM 2010 presented together with two keynote talks are accompanied by 7 revised full papers of SETOP 2010; all papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The DPM 2010 papers cover topics such as how to...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2011, held in Taormina, Italy, in March 2011. The 28 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk. The papers are grouped in topical sections on signatures, attribute based encryption, number theory, protocols, chosen-ciphertext security, encryption, zero-knowledge, and cryptanalysis.

Constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2011, that was held in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. This book includes 35 full papers together with 2 invited talks.