Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2006, 9 conf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2006, held in New York, NY, USA in April 2006.

The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptanalysis and protocol weaknesses, distributed crypto-computing, encryption methods, cryptographic hash and applications, number theory algorithms, pairing-based cryptography, cryptosystems design and analysis, signature and identification, authentication and key establishment, multi-party computation, and PKI techniques.