This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Paris, France, in April 1997. The 17 revised full papers presented address all current aspects of security protocols. Among the topics covered are secure distribution of knowledge, electronic voting systems, secure Internet transactions, digital signatures, key exchange, cryprographic protocols, authentication, threshold systems, secret sharing, ect.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Security Protocols held in Cambridge, UK in April 1998.
The 15 revised papers presented as position statements are followed by transcripts of the discussions between the authors and the audience. Also included is a report on the final panel discussion on future directions in security protocols research and developments. Thus the volume reflects the lively interaction at the workshop. The papers are devoted to the interrelations between trust and delegation, exploring the...

The Cambridge International Workshop on Security Protocols has now run for eight years. Each year we set a theme, focusing upon a speci?c aspect of security protocols, and invite position papers. Anybody is welcome to send us a position paper (yes, you are invited) and we don t insist they relate to the current theme in an obvious way. In our experience, the emergence of the theme as a unifying threadtakesplaceduringthediscussionsattheworkshopitself.Theonlyground rule is that position papers should formulate an approach to some unresolved issues, rather than being a description of a ?nished...