This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications which was held at the River View Ho tel in Singapore during December 14-17, 1998. The program of this conference was arranged by a committee consisting of Claude Carlet (University of Caen), Agnes Chan (Northeastern University), Cunsheng Ding (National University of Singapore, co-chair), Dieter Gollmann (Microsoft Research), Tor Helleseth (Uni versity of Bergen, co-chair), Kyoki Imamura (Kyushu Institute of Technology), Andrew Klapper (University of Kentucky), Vijay Kumar...

Chinese Remainder Theorem, CRT, is one of the jewels of mathematics. It is a perfect combination of beauty and utility or, in the words of Horace, omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. Known already for ages, CRT continues to present itself in new contexts and open vistas for new types of applications. So far, its usefulness has been obvious within the realm of “three C's”. Computing was its original field of application, and continues to be important as regards various aspects of algorithmics and modular computations. Theory of codes and cryptography are two more recent...

Secure message transmission is of extreme importance in today's information-based society. Stream encryption is a practical means to this end. This monograph is devoted to a new aspect of stream ciphers, namely the stability theory of stream ciphers, with the purpose of developing bounds on complexity which can form part of the basis for a general theory of data security and of stabilizing stream-cipher systems. The topic is treated by introducing measure indexes on the security of stream ciphers, developing lower bounds on these indexes, and establishing connections among them. The treatment...

These are the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference in Cryptology in India, INDOCRYPT 2001, held in Chennai, India in December 2001. The 31 revised full papers presented together with an invited survey were reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on hashing, algebraic schemes, elliptic curves, coding theory, applications, cryptanalysis, distributed cryptography, Boolean functions, digitial signatures, and shift registers.