Coding theory and cryptology

The 2003 Information Security Conference was the sixth in a series that started with the InformationSecurity Workshopin 1997.

In the setting of multi-party computation, sets of two or more parties with private inputs wish to jointly compute some (predetermined) function of their inputs.

Crypto 2004, the 24th 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.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 10th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2003, held in Ottawa, Canada, in August 2003.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Security Protocols held in Cambridge, UK in April 1998.

 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Digital Rights Management, DRM 2002, held in Washington, DC, USA, in November 2002, in conjunction with ACM CCS-9.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2003, held in Seoul, Korea, in November 2003.

 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2003, held in Wollongong, Australia, in July 2003.

The ninth in the series of IMA Conferences on Cryptography and Coding was held (as ever) at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, from 16-18 Dec- ber 2003.

Concepts like ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence that exploit - creasingly interconnected networks and mobility put new requirements on data management.

Johannes Buchmann is internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in areas of computational number theory, cryptography and information security.

EUROCRYPT 2001, the 20th annual Eurocrypt conference, was sponsored by the IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, see http://www.

The third successful completion of the INDOCRYPT conference series marks the acceptance of the series by the international research community as a forum for presenting high-quality research.

The Sixth International Financial Cryptography Conference was held during March 11-14, 2002, in Southampton, Bermuda.

Sincerely welcome to proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, Zaragoza, Spain, held from August 30th to September 1st, 2004.

The second International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2004) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (the International Communications and Information Security Association).

ICICS 2001, the Third International Conference on Information and Commu- cations Security, was held in Xi'an, China, 13-16 November 2001.

The 1st International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW), the con- rence covering all aspects of digital watermarking, was held at the Hotel Riviera situated along the beautiful Han River in Seoul, Korea from November 21 to 22, 2002.

The mid-1990ssaw an exciting convergenceof a number of dieren t information protection technologies, whose theme was the hiding (as opposed to encryption) of information.

Infrastructure Security Conference 2002 (InfraSec 2002) was created to promote security research and the development of practical solutions in the security of infrastructures - both government and commercial - such as the effective prevention of, detection of, reporting of, response to and recovery from security incidents.

The Crypto '95 conference was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the IEEE Computer - ciety Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Anonymity and unobservability have become key issues in the context of securing privacy on the Internet and in other communication networks.

Since 1998, RAID has established its reputation as the main event in research on intrusion detection, both in Europe and the United States.

Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, hosted SAFECOMP 2003.

Security is a rapidly growing area of computer science, with direct and increasing relevance to real-life applications, such as Internet transactions, e-commerce, information protection, network and systems security, etc.

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.

Computers and their interactions are becoming the characteristic features of our time: Many people believe that the industrial age is going over into the information age.

You are holding the rst in a hopefully long and successful series of RSA Cr- tographers' Track proceedings.

This volume contains selected papers presented at the 12th International C- ference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2004, held in Huntsville Alabama, July 19-23, 2004.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: Research and Applications, EuroPKI 2004, held on Samos Island, Greece in June 2004.

On August 6, 2002,a paper with the title "e;PRIMES is in P"e;, by M.

The Cryptographers' Track (CT-RSA) is a research conference within the RSA conference, the largest, regularly staged computer security event.

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.

ICICS'99, the Second International Conference on Information and C- munication Security, was held in Sydney, Australia, 9-11 November 1999.