Ebook: Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT’99: International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Singapore, November 14-18, 1999. Proceedings

Asiacrypt’99 was held in Singapore on 14-18 November 1999. Asiacrypt is one of the major events in the cryptology research community. Asiacrypt’99, the ?fth annual Asiacrypt conference, was sponsored by the Asiacrypt Steering Comm- tee and the Centre for Systems Security of the National University of Singapore, and in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptology Research. As the Program Co-Chairs of Asiacrypt’99, we are extremely honored to or- nize this event, which showcases the state-of-the-art development of cryptology research at the conclusion of this millennium. This year, a total of 96 research papers were submitted to Asiacrypt’99. The portfolio of country of origin of submissions serves as a good indicator of the - ternational reputation of the conference. Countries from which submissions or- inated include: Australia, Belgium, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Sin- pore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA and Yugoslavia. Through a stringent refereeing process by the Program C- mittee, 31 papers of outstanding quality were accepted and are included in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers were authored by researchers from the following countries: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, China, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, UK, and USA.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT'99, held in Singapore in November 1999. The 31 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 96 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on assymetric key cryptosystems, cryptanalysis, elliptic curve cryptosystems, public key cryptosystems, integers and computation, network security, random numbers, key management, and authentication.