This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2001, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2001.
The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 156 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, traitor tracing, multi-party computation, two-party computation, elliptic curves, OAEP, encryption and authentication, signature schemes, protocols, cryptanalysis, applications of group theory and coding theory, broadcast and secret sharing, and soundness and zero-knowledge.