This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems, ESSoS 2012, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in February 2012. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 7 idea papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The full papers present new research results in the field of engineering secure software and systems, whereas the idea papers give crisp expositions of interesting, novel ideas in the early stages of development.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2011, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2011.The 23 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptanalysis of hash functions, security in clouds, bits and randomness, cryptanalysis of ciphers, cryptanalysis of public-key crypthography, cipher implementation, new designs and mathematical aspects of applied...

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Jean-Jaques Quisquater on the occasion of his 65th Birthday, contains 33 papers from colleagues all over the world and deals with all the fields to which Jean-Jaques dedicated his work during his academic career. Focusing on personal tributes and re-visits of Jean-Jaques Quisquater's legacy, the volume addresses the following central topics: symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, side-channels attacks, hardware and implementations, smart cards, and information security. In addition there are four more contributions just "as diverse as...

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2012, held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2012.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2012, held in Cambgridge, UK, in April 2012.

The present volume aims to provide an overview of the current understanding of the so-called Critical Infrastructure (CI), and particularly the Critical Information Infrastructure (CII), which not only forms one of the constituent sectors of the overall CI, but also is unique in providing an element of interconnection between sectors as well as often also intra-sectoral control mechanisms. The 14 papers of this book present a collection of pieces of scientific work in the areas of critical infrastructure protection. In combining elementary concepts and models with policy-related issues on one...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2012, held in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, in March 2012. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 131 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on secure computation; (blind) signatures and threshold encryption; zero-knowledge and security models; leakage-resilience; hash functions; differential privacy; pseudorandomness; dedicated encryption; security amplification; resettable and parallel zero knowledge.

This book contains the revised selected papers of the Second Workshop on Real-Life Cryptographic Protocols and Standardization, RLCPS 2011, and the Second Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research, WECSR 2011, held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2010, in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, in February/March 2011. The 16 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics ranging from anonymity and privacy, authentication and identification, biometrics, commercial...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2012, held in Darmstadt, Germany, May 2012. The 16 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on practical side-channel analysis; secure design; side-channel attacks on RSA; fault attacks; side-channel attacks on ECC; different methods in side-channel analysis.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2012, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in May 2012. This title features papers that are organized in the following topical sections: homomorphic encryption and LWE, signature schemes, and more.