Security and Cryptography for Networks: 5th International Conference, SCN 2006, Maiori, Italy, September 6-8, 2006, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Security and Cryptology for Networks, SCN 2006, held in Maiori, Italy in September 2006.

The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of an invited talk were carefully revised and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed systems security, signature schemes variants, block cipher analysis, anonymity and e-commerce, public key encryption and key exchange, secret sharing, symmetric key cryptanalisis and randomness, applied authentication, and public key related cryptanalisis.