Coding theory and cryptology

It is commonly assumed that computers process information.

Since 1993, cryptographic algorithm research has centered around the Fast So- ware Encryption (FSE) workshop.

The 2004 Information Security Conference was the seventh in a series that started with the Information Security Workshop in 1997.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in provably "e;good"e; pseudo-random number generators [lo, 4, 14, 31.

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Ahlswede, who passed away in December 2010.

FOSAD has been one of the foremost educational events established with the goal of disseminating knowledge in the critical area of security in computer systems and networks.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Information Hiding Workshop, IHW 2001, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in April 2001.

The purpose of VLBV 2003 was to provide an international forum for the d- cussion of the state of the art of visual content processing techniques, standards, and applications covering areas such as: video/image analysis, representation and coding, communications and delivery, consumption, synthesis, protection, and adaptation.

The 10th Annual ASIACRYPT 2004 was held in Jeju Island, Korea, d- ing December 5-9, 2004.

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2004), which took place in Sophia-Antipolis, French Riviera, France, September 15-17, 2004.

These are the proceedings of Eurocrypt 2004, the 23rd Annual Eurocrypt C- ference.

We are happy to present to you the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, IWDW 2003.

The Seventh Australasian Conference in Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) was held in Melbourne, 3-5July, 2002.

Crypto 2001, the 21st Annual Crypto conference, was sponsored by the Int- national Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Thepapersinthisvolumewereselectedforpresentationatthe10thInternational Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2004), held on August 17-20, 2004 in Jeju Island, Korea.

Large-scale open distributed systems provide an infrastructure for assembling global applications on the basis of software and hardware components originating from multiple sources.

Crypto 2002, the 22nd Annual Crypto Conference, was sponsored by IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

This year we celebrated another anniversary: after 20 years of SAFECOMP in 1999, th this was the 20 SAFECOMP since its inauguration in 1979.

Smart cards have been driven by the need for a secure, portable, computing platform.

This book presents a collection of 36 pieces of scientific work in the areas of complexity theory and foundations of cryptography: 20 research contributions, 13 survey articles, and 3 programmatic and reflective viewpoint statements.

Financial Cryptography 2000 marked the fourth time the technical, business, legal, and political communities from around the world joined together on the smallislandofAnguilla,BritishWestIndiestodiscussanddiscovernewadvances in securing electronic ?

The mathematical theory and practice of cryptography and coding underpins the provision of effective security and reliability for data communication, processing, and storage.

PKC 2003 was the Sixth International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography and was sponsored by IACR, the International As- ciation for Cryptologic Research (www.

These post-proceedings contain 27 papers that were accepted for presentation at the Fifth International Workshop on Information Hiding, held 7-9 October 2002, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication, and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval, and image authentication.

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the 13th Annual S- posium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, held July 3-5, 2002 at the Hotel Uminonakamichi, in Fukuoka, Japan.

Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of information based on its semantic content.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of David Kahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn's 80th birthday.