ICICS 2003, the Fifth International Conference on Information and C- munication Security, was held in Huhehaote city, Inner Mongolia, China, 10-13 October 2003. Among the preceding conferences, ICICS'97 was held in B- jing, China, ICICS'99 in Sydney, Australia, ICICS 2001 in Xi'an, China, and ICICS 2002, in Singapore.TheproceedingswerereleasedasVolumes1334,1726, 2229, and 2513 of the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag, respectively. ICICS 2003 was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the China Computer F- eration. The conference...

ESORICS, the European Symposium On Research In Computer Security, is the leading research-oriented conference on the theory and practice of computer - curity in Europe. The aim of ESORICS is to further the progress of research in computer security by establishing a European forum for bringing together - searchersinthisarea, bypromotingtheexchangeofideaswithsystemdevelopers and by encouraging links with researchers in related areas. ESORICS is coordinated by an independent steering committee. In the past it took place every two years at various locations throughout Europe. Starting this year,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption; this workshop was held in conjunction with the program on computer security, cryptology, and coding theory at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, UK in February 1996.
The 18 revised papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the volume by the program committee. They report the state of the art in the field of fast encryption algorithms and are organized in sections on block cipher analysis, applications, hash functions, block cipher proposals, correlation...

A completely up-to-date resource on computer security

Assuming no previous experience in the field of computer security, this must-have book walks you through the many essential aspects of this vast topic, from the newest advances in software and technology to the most recent information on Web applications security. This new edition includes sections on Windows NT, CORBA, and Java and discusses cross-site scripting and JavaScript hacking as well as SQL injection. Serving as a helpful introduction, this self-study guide is a wonderful starting point for examining the variety of...