Provable Security

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2008, held in Shanghai, China, October 30 - November 1, 2008. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Encryption, Signature, Analysis, Application of Hash Functions, Universal Composability, and Applications.