Ebook: Arithmetic of Finite Fields: 2nd International Workshop, WAIFI 2008 Siena, Italy, July 6-9, 2008 Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2008, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2008.

The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on structures in finite fields, efficient finite field arithmetic, efficient implementation and architectures, classification and construction of mappings over finite fields, and codes and cryptography.

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These are the proceedings of WAIFI 2008, the second workshop on the Arithmeticof Finite Fields, that was held in Siena, Italy, July 6-9, 2008. The firstworkshop, WAIFI 2007, which was held in Madrid (Spain), was received quiteenthusiastically by mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and physicistswho are performing research on finite field arithmetic. We believe that there isa need for a workshop series bridging the gap between the mathematical theoryof finite fields and their hardware/software implementations and technical applications.We hope that the WAIFI workshop series, which from now on will beheld on even years, will help to fill this gap.There were 34 submissions to WAIFI 2008, of which the Program Committeeselected 16 for presentation. Each submission was reviewed by at least threereviewers. Our thanks go to the Program Committee members for their manycontributions and hard work.We are also grateful to the external reviewers listedbelow for their expertise and assistance in the deliberations. In addition to thecontributions appearing in these proceedings, the workshop program includedan invited lecture given by Amin Shokrollahi