Cryptology and Network Security: 7th International Conference, CANS 2008, Hong-Kong, China, December 2-4, 2008. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Security and Cryptology): 5339 - Tapa blanda

TheseventhinternationalconferenceonCryptologyandNetworkSecurity(CANS 2008)washeld at HKU Town Center, Hong Kong,China, during December 2-4, 2008. The conference was organized by the Department of Computer Science, theUniversityofHongKong,andwasfullysupportedbytheCenterforInfor- tion Security and Cryptography at the University of Hong Kong, the Cyberport Institute of Hong Kong at the University of Hong Kong and the Department of Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong. The goal of CANS is to promote research on all aspects of network security, as well as to build a bridge between research on cryptography and network security. Previous CANS conferences have been held in Taipei, Taiwan (2001), SanFrancisco,USA (2002),Miami,USA (2003),Xiamen, China (2005),Suzhou, China (2006), and Singapore (2007). The conference proceedings of recent years were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The Program Committee received 73 submissions, and accepted 27 papers for presentation. The ?nal versions of the accepted papers, which the authors ?nalized on the basis of comments from the reviewers, were included in the proceedings. The reviewing process took nine weeks; each paper was carefully evaluated by at least three members from the Program Committee. The in- vidual reviewing phase was followed by a Web-based discussion. 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 Program Committee and the external referees who gave many hours of their valuable time.

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 protocols, stream ciphers and block ciphers, cryptographic foundations, applications and implementations, as well as security in ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks.