Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2001

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographers' Track at RSA Conference 2001, CT-RSA 2001, in San Francisco, CA, USA in April 2001. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on new cryptosystems; RSA; symmetric cryptography; gambling and lotteries; reductions, constructions, and security proofs; flaws and attacks; implementation; multivariate cryptography; number theoretic problems; passwords and credentials; and protocols.