This volume is based on a course held several times, and again in 1993, at the ESAT Laboratorium of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. These courses are intended for both researchers in computer security and cryptography and for practitioners in industry and government. The contributors of the 1991 course were invited to submit revised and updated versions of their papers for inclusion in a book. This volume is the final result; it is well- balanced between basic theory and real life applications, between mathematical background and...

The Department of Electrical Engineering-ESAT at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven regularly runs a course on the state of the art and evolution of computer security and industrial cryptography. The rst course took place in 1983, the second in 1989, and since then the course has been a biennial event. The course is intended for both researchers and practitioners from industry and government. It covers the basic principles as well as the most recent - velopments. Our own interests mean that the course emphasizes cryptography, but we also ensure that the most important topics in computer...

This volume continues the tradition established in 2001 of publishing the c- tributions presented at the Cryptographers' Track (CT-RSA) of the yearly RSA Security Conference in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. With 14 parallel tracks and many thousands of participants, the RSA - curity Conference is the largest e-security and cryptography conference. In this setting, the Cryptographers' Track presents the latest scienti?c developments. The program committee considered 49 papers and selected 20 for presen- tion. One paper was withdrawn by the authors. The program...

This manual documents the outcome of the EC sponsored project RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation (R1040), RIPE. This project is a huge joint 350 man-month project conducted by 16 leading European security experts.
This book offers expert advice to professionals seeking to secure information systems by applying up-to-date cryptographic techniques. The core of this volume is a detailed integrity primitives portfolio recommendation. Among the issues addressed are security services, integrity mechanisms, data origin authentication, entity authentication, access control, data integrity,...

This book contains a set of revised refereed papers selected from the presentations at the Second International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption held in Leuven, Belgium, in December 1994.
The 28 papers presented significantly advance the state of the art of software algorithms for two cryptographic primitives requiring very high speeds, namely encryption algorithms and hash functions: this volume contains six proposals for new ciphers as well as new results on the security of the new proposals. In addition, there is an introductory overview by the volume editor. The papers are...

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...

AFRICACRYPT 2009washeld during June 21-25,2009in Gammarth, Tunisia. After AFRICACRYPT 2008 in Casablanca, Morocco, it was the second inter- tional research conference in Africa dedicated to cryptography. The conference received70 submissions;four of these wereidenti?ed as irr- ular submissions. The remaining papers went through a careful doubly ano- mous review process. Every paper received at least three reports; papers with a ProgramCommittee member asco-authorreceived?vereports.After the review period, 25 papers were accepted for presentation. The authors were requested to...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2014, held in Novy Smokovec, Slovakia, in January 2014. The 40 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The book also contains 6 invited talks. The contributions covers topics as: Foundations of Computer Science, Software and Web Engineering, as well as Data, Information and Knowledge Engineering and Cryptography, Security and Verification.