Key Exchange In Cryptography

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Handbook of Applied Cryptography

Cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, has emerged in the last 20 years as an important discipline that is not only the subject of an enormous amount of research, but provides the foundation for information security in many applications. Standards are emerging to meet the demands for cryptographic protection in most areas of data communications. Public-key cryptographic techniques are now in widespread use, especially in the financial services industry, in the public sector, and by individuals for their personal privacy, such as in electronic mail. This Handbook will serve as a valuable reference for the novice as well as for the expert who needs a wider scope of coverage within the area of cryptography. It is a necessary and timely guide for professionals who practice the art of cryptography. The Handbook of Applied Cryptography provides a treatment that is multifunctional: It serves as an introduction to the more practical aspects of both conventional and public-key cryptography It is a valuable source of the latest techniques and algorithms for the serious practitioner It provides an integrated treatment of the field, while still presenting each major topic as a self-contained unit It provides a mathematical treatment to accompany practical discussions It contains enough abstraction to be a valuable reference for theoreticians while containing enough detail to actually allow implementation of the algorithms discussed Now in its third printing, this is the definitive cryptography reference that the novice as well as experienced developers, designers, researchers, engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians alike will use.

Applied Cryptography and Network Security

ACNS2008,the6thInternationalConferenceonAppliedCryptographyandN- work Security, was held in New York, New York, June 3–6, 2008, at Columbia University. ACNS 2008 was organized in cooperation with the International - sociation for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. The General Chairs of the conference were - gelos Keromytis and Moti Yung. The conference received 131 submissions, of which the Program Committee, chairedbyStevenBellovinandRosarioGennaro, selected 30 for presentation at the conference. The Best Student Paper Award was given to Liang Xie and Hui Song for their paper “On the E?ectiveness of Internal Patch Dissemination Against File-Sharing Worms” (co-authored with Sencun Zhu). These proceedings consist of revised versions of the presented papers. The revisions werenot reviewed.The authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers. Thereweremany submissionsof goodquality, and consequentlythe selection process was challenging and very competitive. Indeed, a number of good papers were not accepted due to lack of space in the program. The main considerations in selecting the program were conceptual and technical innovation and quality of presentation. As re?ected in the Call for Papers, an attempt was made to solicit and publish papers suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives.