Cryptology and Network Security: 7th International Conference, CANS 2008, Hong-Kong, China, December 2-4, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2008, held in Hong—Kong, China, in December 2008. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptosystems, signatures, identification, authentication and key management, cryptographic algorithms and prools, stream ciphers and block ciphers, cryptographic foundations, ap...