Information and Communications Security: 5th International Conference, ICICS 2003, Huhehaote, China, October 10-13, 2003, Proceedings

ICICS 2003, the Fifth International Conference on Information and C— munication Security, was held in Huhehaote city, Inner Mongolia, China, 10–13 October 2003. Among the preceding conferences, ICICS’97 was held in B— jing, China, ICICS’99 in Sydney, Australia, ICICS 2001 in Xi’an, China, and ICICS 2002,in Singapore. The proceedings were released as Volumes 1334, 1726, 2229, and 2513 of the LNCS series of Springer—Verlag, respectively. ICICS 2003 was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Scie...