Ed Dawson - Böcker

Mycrypt 2005 was the inaugural international conference on cryptology hosted in Malaysia. The conference was co-organized by the Information Security - search Lab at Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus), NISER (National ICT Security and Emergency Response Centre) and INSPEM (Ins- tute for MathematicalResearch)at UPM (UniversityPutra Malaysia).Mycrypt 2005 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during September 28-30 2005, in conjunction with the e-Secure Malaysia 2005 convention. Therewere90paper submissionsfrom23 countriescoveringall areasof cr- tologic research, from which 19 were accepted. We would like to extend our thanks to all authors who submitted papers to Mycrypt 2005. Each paper was sentanonymouslytoatleast3membersoftheInternationalProgramCommittee for reviews and comments. The review comments were then followed by disc- sions among the Program Committee. A recipient of the Best Paper Award was also selected after voting among Program Committee members. The winning paper was "Distinguishing Attacks on T-functions" by Simon Kunzli .. (FH A- gau, Swizerland), Pascal Junod (Nagravision SA, Switzerland) and Willi Meier (FH Aargau, Swizerland).These proceedings contain revised versions of all the accepted papers. The conference program included three keynote papers: Hideki Imai (Tokyo University)presenteda paper entitled "TrendsandChallenges forSecurer Cr- tography in Practice". Moti Yung (Columbia University) presented a paper entitled "E?cient Secure Group Signatures with Dynamic Joins and Keeping Anonymity Against Group Managers". Colin Boyd (QUT) presented a paper entitled "Security of Two-Party Identity-Based Key Agreement". We are extremely grateful for the time and e?ort of all the members of the Program Committee in the review process. Their names may be found overleaf.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP'98, held in Brisbane, Australia, in Kuly 1998.The volume presents 35 revised full papers selected from a total of 66 submissions; also included are two invited contributions. The book is divided in sections on network security, block ciphers, stream ciphers, authorization codes and Boolean functions, software security and electronic commerce, public key cryptography, hardware, access control, protocols, secret sharing, and digital signatures.

ACISP 2000, the Fifth Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, was held in Brisbane, Australia, 10-12 July, 2000. The conference was sponsored by the Information Security Research Centre at Queensland Univ- sity of Technology, the Australian Computer Society, Telstra, Boeing Australia Limited, SecureGate Limited, and RSA Security Pty Ltd. We are grateful to all these organizations for their support of the conference. The conference brought together researchers, designers, implementors, and users of information security systems. The aim of the conference is to have a series of technical refereed and invited papers to discuss all di?erent aspects of information security. The program committee invited seven distinguished sp- kers: Mike Burmester, G. R. Blakley, Bob Blakley, Brian Denehy, Roger Lyle, John Snare, and Alan Underwood. Mike Burmester from Royal Holloway C- lege,UniversityofLondonpresentedapaperentitled"ASurveyofKeyDistri- tion"; G. R.Blakley from Texas A&M University and Bob Blakley from the IBM Tivoli Security Business Unit presented a paper entitled "All Sail, No Anchor, I: Cryptography, Risk, and e-Commerce"; Brian Denehy from SecureGate Limited presented a paper entitled "Secure Networks or Network Security - Approaches toBoth";RogerLylefromStandardsAustraliaandJohnSnarefromTelstrap- sented a paper entitled "Perspectives on Australia's New Information Security Management Standard"; and Alan Underwood from the Australian Computer Societypresentedapaperentitled"ProfessionalEthicsinaSecurityandPrivacy Context - The Perspective of a National Computing Society". There were 81 technical papers submitted to the conference from an int- national authorship. These papers were refereed by the program committee and 37 papers were accepted for the conference.

The third international conference on Information Security Practice and - perience (ISPEC 2007) was held in Hong Kong, China, May 7 – 9, 2007. The conference was organized and sponsored by City University of Hong Kong. As applications of information security technologies become pervasive, - sues pertaining to their deployment and operation are becoming increasingly important. ISPEC is an annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners to provide a con?uence of new information security technologies, their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical s- tors. In 2005 and 2006,the ?rst and second conferences were held successfully in Singapore and Hangzhou, China, respectively. The conference proceedings were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The Program Committee received 135 submissions, and accepted 24 papers for presentation. The ?nal versions of the accepted papers, which the authors ?nalized on the basis of comments from the reviewers, are included in the p- ceedings.The entire reviewing process tooknine weeks,eachpaper was carefully evaluated by at least three members from the ProgramCommittee. The indiv- ual reviewing phase was followed by a Web-based discussion. Papers over which the reviewers signi?cantly disagreed were further reviewed by external experts. Based on the comments and scores given by reviewers, the ?nal decisions on acceptance were made. We appreciate the hard work of the members of the P- gram Committee and external referees, who gave many hours of their valuable time.

Here is a highly relevant book that covers a wide array of key aspects in information security. It constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy held in Townsville, Australia in July 2007. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on stream ciphers, hashing, biometrics, secret sharing, cryptanalysis, public key cryptography, authentication, e-commerce, and security.