The conference Mathematical Methods in Computer Science (MMICS) was held in the memory of Thomas Beth during December 17-19 in Karlsruhe. The c- ference was meant to re?ect the many interests of Thomas Beth. Even though these interests might seem diverse the mathematical methods employed and - pecially algebra as a language were the common denominator of all his scienti?c achievements. The 12 contributed talks reaching from t-designs to integrated circuits were selected from 30 submissions from 14 countries. The contributed talks were complemented by three invited talks. Teo Mora gave a talk on "Decoding Cyclic Codes: The Cooper Philosophy" embracing the areas of coding theory and symbolic computation. These areas were especially appreciated by Thomas Beth, because they combine algebra and algorithmics. Richard Jozsa lectured about "Embedding Classical into Quantum Compu- tion" in the area of quantum information. Quantum information was a focus of research of Tomas Beth since 1993 when he co-organized one of the e- liest workshops on quantum cryptography in Dagstuhl. Quantum information became his passion in 1994 when the connection between the Fourier transf- mation and breaking the RSA crypto system became apparent via Shor's al- rithm, which can factor integers in polynomial time on a quantum computer. The Fourier transform and cryptography were topics that played an important role in Thomas Beth's research and this connection, once again, justi?ed his broad view on computer science.

On behalf of the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on N- work Operations and Management (CNOM), Manweek 2008 Organizing C- mittee, and members of the IPOM Technical Program Committee, it is our pleasureto present the proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management(IPOM 2008),heldaspartofManweek2008duringSeptember 22-26, 2008, on Samos, Greece. ThecurrentInternetisalarge-scaledistributedsystemwhosesub-components suchasaddressing,protocols,algorithms,services,need to scalein time withthe rapid growth of Internet tra?c volumes. Moreover, there is a high level of int- action between di?erent subcomponents of the Internet sometimes in undesired ways - for example, denial of service attacks can jeopardize the operation of a commercial network. With these challenges in place, operations and mana- ment of IP networks have become increasingly important. This necessitates a good understanding of the emerging technical and scienti?c problems in the current Internet, and lessons from such understanding will be particularly - portant for future Internet design and management. Building on the success of the previous events, we wanted IPOM 2008 to focus on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as on future Internet design.

This book represents the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2007, held in Tokyo, Japan in July 2007.

The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 abstracts and 3 full papers of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topcial sections on applications, certificateless public key encryption, hyperelliptic curves, implementation, cryptographic protocols, cryptanalysis, and cryptographic algorithms.

Since1994, CARDIShasbeentheforemostinternationalconferencededicatedto smart card research and applications. Every two years, the scienti?c community congregates to present new ideas and discuss recent developments with both an academicandindustrialfocus.Followingtheincreasedcapabilitiesofsmartcards anddevices, CARDIS has becomea majoreventfor the discussionofthe various issuesrelatedtotheuseofsmallelectronictokensintheprocessofhuman-machine interactions.Thescopeoftheconferenceincludesnumeroussub?eldssuchasn- working, e?cientimplementations, physicalsecurity, biometrics, andso on. This year's CARDIS was held in London, UK, on September 8-11, 2008. It was organized by the Smart Card Centre, Information Security Group of the Royal Holloway, University of London. Thepresentvolumecontainsthe21papersthatwereselectedfromthe51s- missions to the conference. The 22 members of the program committee worked hard in order to evaluate each submission with at least three reviews and agree on a high quality ?nal program. Additionally, 61 external reviewers helped the committee with their expertise. Two invited talks completed the technical p- gram. The ?rst one, given by Ram Banerjee and Anki Nelaturu, was entitled "Getting Started with Java Card 3.0 Platform." The second one, given by Aline Gouget, was about "Recent Advances in Electronic Cash Design" and was c- pleted by an abstract provided in these proceedings.

The Pairing 2008 Conference was held at Royal Holloway, University of London during September 1-3, 2008. This conference followed on from the Pairing in Cryptography workshop (held in Dublin, Ireland on June 12-15, 2005) and the Pairing 2007 conference (held in Tokyo, Japan on July 2-4, 2007, with proce- ings published in Springer's LNCS 4575). The aim of this series of conferences is to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, all concerned with problems related to pairing-based cryptography. The programme consisted of 3 invited talks and 20 contributed papers. The invitedspeakerswereXavierBoyen(VoltageSecurity, USA), FlorianHess(Te- nical University Berlin, Germany) and Nigel Smart (University of Bristol, UK). Special thanks are due to these speakers, all three of whom provided papers which are included in these proceedings. The contributed talks were selected from ?fty submissions. The accepted papers cover a range of topics in mathematics and computer science, including hardwareand softwareimplementation of pairings, cryptographicprotocols, and mathematical aspects and applications of pairings. We would like to thank all the people who helped with the conference p- gramme and organisation. First, we thank the Steering Committee for their guidance and suggestions. We also heartily thank the Programme Committee and the sub-reviewers listed on the following pages for their thoroughness d- ing the review process. Each paper was reviewed by at least three people and there was signi?cant online discussion about a number of papers.

The AFRICACRYPT 2008 conference was held during June 11-14, 2008 in Casablanca, Morocco. Upon the initiative of the organizers from the Ecole n- male sup erieure in Casablanca, this event was the ?rst international research conference in Africa dedicated to cryptography. The conference was honored by the presence of the invited speakers Bruce Schneier, Jacques Stern, and Alexander W. Dent who gave talks entitled "The Psychology of Security" "Modern Cryptography: A Historical Perspective" and "ABriefHistoryofProvably-SecurePublic-KeyEncryption,"respectively.These proceedings include papers by Bruce Schneier and by Alexander Dent. The conference received 82 submissions on November 24, 2007. They went through a careful doubly anonymous review process. This was run by the iChair software written by Thomas Baign eres and Matthieu Finiasz. Every paper - ceived at least three review reports. After this period, 25 papers were accepted on February 12, 2008. Authors then had the opportunity to update their papers until March 13, 2008. The present proceedings include all the revised papers. At the end of the review process, the paper entitled "An Authentication Protocol with Encrypted Biometric Data" written by Julien Bringer and Herv e Chabanne was elected to receive the Africacrypt 2008 Best Paper Award. I had the privilege to chair the Program Committee. I would like to thank all committee members for their tough work on the submissions, as well as all externalreviewersfortheirsupport.IalsothankmyassistantThomasBaign eres formaintainingtheserverandhelpingmetorunthesoftware.Ithanktheinvited speakers, the authors of the best paper, the authors of all submissions. They all contributed to the success of the conference."

FastSoftwareEncryption(FSE)isthe15thinaseriesofworkshopsonsymmetric cryptography. It is sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research(IACR), andpreviousFSEworkshopshavebeenheldaroundtheworld: 1993 Cambridge, UK 1994 Leuven, Belgium 1996 Cambridge, UK 1997 Haifa, Israel 1998 Paris, France 1999 Rome, Italy 2000 New York, USA 2001 Yokohama, Japan 2002 Leuven, Belgium 2003 Lund, Sweden 2004 New Delhi, India 2005 Paris, France 2006 Graz, Austria 2007 Luxembourg, Luxembourg The FSE workshop is devoted to the foreground research on fast and secure primitivesforsymmetriccryptography, includingthedesignandanalysisofblock ciphers, stream ciphers, encryption schemes, analysis and evaluation tools, hash functions, and message authentication codes. This year 72 papers were submitted to FSE including a large number of hi- quality and focused submissions, from which 26 papers for regular presentation and 4 papers for short presentation were selected. I wish to thank the authors of all submissions for their scienti?c contribution to the workshop. The workshop also featured an invited talk by Lars R. Knudsen with the title "Hash functions and SHA-3." The traditional rump session with short informal presentations on current topics was organized and chaired by Daniel J. Bernstein. EachsubmissionwasreviewedbyatleastthreeProgramCommitteemembers. Each submission originating from the Program Committee received at least ?ve reviews.The?nalselectionwasmadeafterathoroughdiscussion.Iwishtothank all ProgramCommittee members and referees for their generouswork.I am also gratefulto ThomasBaign eresformaintainingandcustomizingthe iChair review management software, which o?ered an excellent support for the demanding reviewing task. I would also like to thank him for setting up a beautiful and informative website and for compiling the pre-proceedings.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2006, held in Anguilla, British West Indies in February/March 2006. The 19 revised full papers and six revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2007, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in December 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on number theory and elliptic curve, protocol, hash function design, group/broadcast cryptography, mac and implementation, multiparty computation, block ciphers, foundation, public key encryption, and cryptanalysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Information Security Practice and Experience Conference, ISPEC 2007, held in Hong Kong, China in May 2007.

The 24 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptanalysis, signatures, network security and security management, privacy and applications, cryptographic algorithms and implementations, authentication and key management, as well as cryptosystems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust, FAST 2006, held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 26-27, 2006.

The 18 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers focus of formal aspects in security and trust policy models, security protocol design and analysis, formal models of trust and reputation, logics for security and trust, distributed trust management systems, trust-based reasoning, digital assets protection, data protection, privacy and ID issues, information flow analysis, language-based security, security and trust aspects in ubiquitous computing, validation/analysis tools, web service security/trust/privacy, GRID security, security risk assessment, and case studies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth VLDB 2007 International Workshop on Secure Data Management, SDM 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, September 23-24, 2007 in conjunction with VLDB 2007.

The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Access Control, Database Security, Privacy Protection and Positon Papers.

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. Data hiding and cryptographic techniques are often combined to complement each other, thus triggering the development of a new research field of multimedia security. Besides, two related disciplines, steganalysis and data forensics, are increasingly attracting researchers and becoming another new research field of multimedia security. This journal, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, aims to be a forum for all researchers in these emerging fields, publishing both original and archival research results.

This second issue contains five papers dealing with a wide range of topics related to multimedia security. The first paper introduces Fingercasting, which allows joint fingerprinting and decryption of broadcast messages. The second paper presents an estimation attack on content-based video fingerprinting. The third proposes a statistics and spatiality-based feature distance measure for error resilient image authentication. The fourth paper reports on LTSB steganalysis. Finally, the fifth paper surveys various blind and robust watermarking schemes for 3D shapes.

Negli ultimi decenni il rapido sviluppo delle tecnologie IT ha influito in maniera determinante nella vita dell'uomo, trasformando, spesso inconsapevolmente il suo lavoro, le sue abitudini, il suo modo di interagire con il mondo che lo circonda. Il fenomeno della "globalizzazione" dei mercati e solo una delle trasformazioni che l'intero pianeta sta attraversando. Anche se i vantaggi derivanti dall'utilizzo delle moderne tecnologie di comunicazione ci facilitano nel lavoro e nella attivita ludiche e personali, molte sono le perplessita e i dubbi che attanagliano tutti coloro che le utilizzano. Se l'Information Technology rappresenta il "combustibile" indispensabile per la sopravvivenza delle aziende e delle attivita dell'uomo, nel contempo puo generare problematicita di grande rilievo. Il testo tratta alcune delle problematiche che destano preoccupazioni rilevanti nel mondo intero come il consumo energetico dei sistemi informatici (incontrollabili e inquinanti), il problema della garanzia della privacy e dell'integrita dei dati su Internet, l'utilizzo della rete Internet come strumento di controllo delle masse, la possibile sparizione degli attuali sistemi operativi che potranno essere sostituiti dal sistema operativo Web Operating System."

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection held in September 2005. The 15 revised full papers and two practical experience reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on worm detection and containment, anomaly detection, intrusion prevention and response, intrusion detection based on system calls and network-based, as well as intrusion detection in mobile and wireless networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2007, held in Beijing, China in April 2007.

The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on signatures, cryptanalysis, protocols, multivariate cryptosystems, encryption, number theoretic techniques, and public-key infrastructure.

Asiacrypt, the annual conference of cryptology sponsored by IACR is now 11 years old. Asiacrypt 2005 was held during December 4-8, 2005, at Hotel Taj Coromandel, Chennai, India.This conferencewasorganizedby theInternational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in cooperation with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. Thisyearatotalof237papersweresubmittedtoAsiacrypt2005.Thesubm- sionscoveredallareasofcryptographicresearchrepresentingthecurrentstateof work in the crypto community worldwide. Each paper was blind reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee and papers co-authored by the PC members were reviewed by at least six members. This ?rst phase of review by the PC members was followed by a detailed discussion on the papers. At the end of the reviewing process 37 papers were accepted and were presented at the conference. The proceedings contain the revised versionsof the accepted papers. In addition we were fortunate to have Prof. Andrew Yao and Prof. Bart Preneel as invited speakers. Based on a discussion and subsequent voting among the PC members, the Best Paper Award for this year's Asiacrypt was conferred to Pascal Paillier and Damien Vergnaud for the paper entitled "Discrete-Log-Based Signatures May Not Be Equivalent to Discrete Log." I would like to thank the following people. First, the General Chair, Prof.

The ?rst SKLOIS Conference on Information Security and Cryptography(CISC 2005) was organized by the State Key Laboratory of Information Security of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was held in Beijing, China, December 15-17,2005andwassponsoredbytheInstituteofSoftware, theChineseAcademy of Sciences, the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation of China. The conference proceedings, represe- ing invited and contributed papers, are published in this volume of Springer s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The area of research covered by CISC has been gaining importance in recent years, and a lot of fundamental, experimental and applied work has been done, advancing the state of the art. The program of CISC 2005 covered numerous ?elds of research within the general scope of the conference. The International Program Committee of the conference received a total of 196 submissions (from 21 countries). Thirty-three submissions were selected for presentation as regular papers and are part of this volume. In addition to this track, the conference also hosted a short-paper track of 32 presentations that were carefully selected as well. All submissions were reviewed by experts in the relevant areas and based on their ranking and strict selection criteria the papers were selected for the various tracks. We note that stricter criteria were applied to papers co-authored by program committee members. We further note that, obviously, no member took part in in?uencing the ranking of his or her own submissions."

Mycrypt 2005 was the inaugural international conference on cryptology hosted in Malaysia. The conference was co-organized by the Information Security - search Lab at Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus), NISER (National ICT Security and Emergency Response Centre) and INSPEM (Ins- tute for MathematicalResearch)at UPM (UniversityPutra Malaysia).Mycrypt 2005 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during September 28-30 2005, in conjunction with the e-Secure Malaysia 2005 convention. Therewere90paper submissionsfrom23 countriescoveringall areasof cr- tologic research, from which 19 were accepted. We would like to extend our thanks to all authors who submitted papers to Mycrypt 2005. Each paper was sentanonymouslytoatleast3membersoftheInternationalProgramCommittee for reviews and comments. The review comments were then followed by disc- sions among the Program Committee. A recipient of the Best Paper Award was also selected after voting among Program Committee members. The winning paper was "Distinguishing Attacks on T-functions" by Simon Kunzli ] (FH A- gau, Swizerland), Pascal Junod (Nagravision SA, Switzerland) and Willi Meier (FH Aargau, Swizerland). These proceedings contain revised versions of all the accepted papers. The conference program included three keynote papers: Hideki Imai (Tokyo University)presenteda paper entitled "TrendsandChallenges forSecurer Cr- tography in Practice." Moti Yung (Columbia University) presented a paper entitled "E?cient Secure Group Signatures with Dynamic Joins and Keeping Anonymity Against Group Managers." Colin Boyd (QUT) presented a paper entitled "Security of Two-Party Identity-Based Key Agreement." We are extremely grateful for the time and e?ort of all the members of the Program Committee in the review process. Their names may be found overleaf."

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, WCC 2005, held in Bergen, Norway, in March 2005. The 33 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of review. The papers address all aspects of coding theory, cryptography and related areas, theoretical or applied.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the 4th Conference on Advanced - cryption Standard, 'AES - State of the Crypto Analysis, ' which was held in Bonn, Germany, during 10-12 May 2004. The conference followed a series of events organized by the US National - stitute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in order to hold an international competition to decide on an algorithm to serve as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). In 1998, at the ?rst AES conference (AES 1), 15 di?erent al- rithmswerepresented, discussed, reviewedandveri?ed.Asecondconferencewas organizedinApril1999, andbyAugust1999only?vecandidateswerestillinthe running: MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent and Two?sh. After a further conference devoted to veri?cation, testing and examination of the candidate algorithms in order to prove their performance and security, one winning algorithm remained. The encryption scheme Rijndael, designed by the Belgian cryptographers Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was selected in 2000 to become the successor to the famous DES (Data Encryption Standard) and it is now the Advanced - cryption Standard.

On behalf of the Program Committee, it is our pleasure to present to you the proceedings of the 2nd GI SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA). DIMVA is organized by the Special Interest Group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI) as an annual conference that brings together experts from throughout the world to discuss the state of the art in the areas of intrusion detection, detection of malware, and assessment of vulnerabilities. TheDIMVA2005ProgramCommitteereceived51submissionsfrom18co- tries. This represents an increase of approximately 25% compared with the n- ber of submissions last year. All submissions were carefully reviewed by at least three Program Committee members or external experts according to the cri- ria of scienti?c novelty, importance to the ?eld, and technical quality. The ?nal selection took place at a meeting held on March 18, 2005, in Zurich, Switz- land. Fourteen full papers were selected for presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. In addition, three papers were selected for presentation in the industry track of the conference. The program featured both theoretical and practical research results, which were grouped into six sessions. Philip Att?eld from the Northwest Security Institute gave the opening keynote speech. The slides presented by the authors are available on the DIMVA 2005 Web site at http: //www.dimva.org/dimva2005 We sincerely thank all those who submitted papers as well as the Program Committee members and the external reviewers for their valuable contributions.

The Fast Software Encryption 2005 Workshop was the twelfth in a series of annual workshops on symmetric cryptography, sponsored for the fourth year by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The workshop concentratedonallaspectsoffastprimitivesforsymmetriccryptology, including thedesign, cryptanalysisandimplementationofblockandstreamciphersaswell as hash functions and message authentication codes. The ?rst FSE workshop was held in Cambridge in 1993, followed by Leuven in 1994, Cambridge in 1996, Haifain1997, Parisin1998, Romein1999, NewYorkin2000, Yokohamain2001, Leuven in 2002, Lund in 2003, and New Delhi in 2004. This year, a total of 96 submissions were received. After an extensive review by the Program Committee, 30 submissions were accepted. Two of these s- missions were merged into a single paper, yielding a total of 29 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop. Also, we were very fortunate to have in the programan invited talk byXuejia Laion Attacks andProtection ofHash Fu- tions and a very entertaining rump session that Bart Preneel kindly accepted to chair. These proceedings contain the revised versions of the accepted papers; the revised versions were not subsequently checked for correctness."

The 2005 Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy was the tenth in the annual series that started in 1996.Over the yearsACISP has grown from a relativelysmallconferencewith a largeproportionof paperscoming from Australia into a truly international conference with an established reputation. ACISP 2005 was held at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, d- ing July 4-6, 2005. This year there were 185 paper submissions and from these 45 papers were accepted. Accepted papers came from 13 countries, with the largest proportions coming from Australia (12), China (8) and Japan (6). India and Korea both contributed 2 papers and one came from Singapore. There were also 11 papers from European countries and 3 from North America. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all authors who submitted papers to ACISP 2005. The contributed papers were supplemented by four invited talks from e- nent researchers in information security. The father-and-son team of Prof. and Dr. Bob Blakley (Texas A&M University and IBM) gave a talk entitled "All Sail, No Anchor III," following up on a theme started at their ACISP 2000 - vited talk. Adrian McCullagh (Phillips Fox Lawyers and QUT) talked on the bene?t and perils of Internet banking. Ted Dunstone (Biometix) enlightened us on multimodal biometric systems. Yvo Desmedt (University College London) elucidated the growing gap between theory and practice in information security.

The 19th Annual IFIP Working Group 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security was held August 7-10, 2005 at the University of C- necticut in Storrs, Connecticut. The objectives of the working conference were to discuss in depth the current state of the researchand practice in data and - plicationsecurity, enableparticipantstobene?tfrompersonalcontactwithother researchers and expand their knowledge, support the activities of the Working Group, and disseminate the research results. This volume contains the 24 papers that were presented at the working c- ference. These papers, which had been selected from 54 submissions, were rig- ously reviewed by the Working Group members. The volume is o?ered both to document progressand to provideresearcherswith a broadperspective of recent developments in data and application security. A special note of thanks goes to the many volunteers whose e?orts made the working conference a success. We wish to thank Divesh Srivastava for agreeing to deliver the invited talk, Carl Landwehr and David Spooner for organizing the panel, the authors for their worthy contributions, and the referees for their time and e?ort in reviewing the papers. We are grateful to T. C. Ting for serving as the General Chair, Steven Demurjian and Charles E. Phillips, Jr. for their hard work as Local Arrangements Chairs, and Pierangela Samarati, Working Group Chair, for managing the IFIP approval process. We would also like to acknowledge Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati for managing the conference's Web site.