Ebook: Applied Cryptography and Network Security: Third International Conference, ACNS 2005, New York, NY, USA, June 7-10, 2005. Proceedings

The 3rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2005) was sponsored and organized by ICISA (the International Commu- cations and Information Security Association). It was held at Columbia University in New York, USA, June 7–10, 2005. This conference proceedings volume contains papers presented in the academic/research track. ACNS covers a large number of research areas that have been gaining importance in recent years due to the development of the Internet, wireless communication and the increased global exposure of computing resources. The papers in this volume are representative of the state of the art in security and cryptography research, worldwide. The Program Committee of the conference received a total of 158 submissions from all over the world, of which 35 submissions were selected for presentation at the a- demic track. In addition to this track, the conference also hosted a technical/ industrial/ short papers track whose presentations were also carefully selected from among the submissions. All submissions were reviewed by experts in the relevant areas.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2005, held in New York, NY, USA in June 2005.

The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. Among the topics covered are authentication, key exchange protocols, network denial of service, digital signatures, public key cryptography, MACs, forensics, intrusion detection, secure channels, identity-based encryption, network security analysis, DES, key extraction, homomorphic encryption, and zero-knowledge arguments.