The International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2007) was the second in the annualseriesthat startedin 2006.IWSEC 2007washeld at the New Public Hall in Nara, Japan, during October 29 31, 2007. This year there were 112 paper submissions, and from these 30 papers were accepted. Accepted papers came from 27 di?erent countries, with the largest proportion coming from Japan (12). Estonia, China, Korea, Spain, Taiwan and the USA contributed 2 papers each and Canada, Germany, Greece, Poland, Turkeyand Vietnam contributed 1 paper each. We would liketo thank all of the authors who submitted papers to...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practices held in Seville in May 2008. The ten revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book.

The 13th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2008) was held at Wollongong, Australia, during July 7 9, 2008. The conference was sponsored by the Centre for Computer and Information Security of the University of Wollongong and the ResearchNetwork for a Secure Australia. The submission and review process was run using the iChair software, written by Thomas Baigneres and Matthieu Finiasz from EPFL, LASEC, Switzerland. We would like to thank them for letting us use their iChair software. The conferencereceived111submissions, out ofwhich the ProgramComm- tee selected...

The 4th International Conference on Security in Communication Networks 2004 (SCN2004)washeldatthe"DioceseHall"oftheArchdioceseofAmal?-Cavade' Tirreni and the "Armorial Bearings Hall" of the Archbishop Palace in Amal?, Italy, on September 8-10, 2004. Previous conferences also took place in Amal? in 1996, 1999 and 2002. The conference aimed at bringing together researchers in the ?elds of cr- tography and security in communication networks to foster cooperation and the exchange of ideas. The main topics included all technical aspects of data security, including: anonymity, authentication,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security and Cryptology for Networks, SCN 2008, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2008. The book contains one invited talk and 26 revised full papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Implementations, Protocols, Encryption, Primitives, Signatures, Hardware and Cryptanalysis, and Key Exchange.

SAC 2005 was the 12th in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography. This was the 5th time the workshop was hosted by Queen's U- versity in Kingston (the previous workshops were held here in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 1999).Other SAC workshopshave been organizedat Carleton University in Ottawa (1995, 1997 and 2003), the Fields Institute in Toronto (2001), Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's (2002) and the University of Waterloo (2000 and 2004). The workshop provided a relaxed atmosphere in which - searchers in cryptography could present and discuss new work on...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2006, held in Suzhou, China, December 2006. The 26 revised full papers and 2 invited papers cover encryption, authentication and signatures, proxy signatures, cryptanalysis, implementation, steganalysis and watermarking, boolean functions and stream ciphers, intrusion detection, and disponibility and reliability.

The RSA Conference, with over 15,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors, is the largest computer security event of the year. The Cryptographers Track (CT- RSA) is a research conference within the RSA Conference. Starting in 2001, CT-RSA continues to its seventh year and is now regarded as one of the major regularly staged event for presenting the results of cryptographic research to a wide variety of audiences. The proceedings of CT-RSA 2007 contain 25 papers selected from 73 s- missions which cover all the topics of cryptography. All the submissions were reviewed by at least three reviewers, which...

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices, CASSIS 2005. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from about 30 workshop talks. The papers are organized in topical sections on research trends in smart devices, Web services, virtual machine technology, security, validation and formal methods, proof-carrying code, and embedded devices.

The third International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2009) was held in Guangzhou, China, November 11-13, 2009. It continued the theme of ProvableSecurity initiated by the ProvSec2007 conference in Wollongong, A- tralia. The second ProvSec conference was organized in Shanghai, China. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Computing - Cryptog- phy and Algorithms (ACAC), Macquarie University, Australia; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Information Security Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, China; andthe NationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChina (NSFC).JiwuHuangwas the...