Table of Contents:
  • Practice-oriented provable security / Mihir Bellare
  • Introduction to secure computation / Ronald Cramer
  • Commitment schemes and zero-knowledge protocols / Ivan Damgårt
  • Emerging standards for public-key cryptography / Burt S. Kaliski Jr.
  • Contemporary block ciphers / Lars R. Knudsen
  • Primality texts and use of primes in public-key systems / Peter Landrock
  • Signing contracts and paying electronically / Torben P. Pedersen
  • The state of cryptographic hash functions / Bart Preneel
  • The search for the holy grail in quantum cryptography / Louis Salvail
  • Unconditional security in cryptography / Stefan Wolf.