The volume is divided into sections on: - Public-key cryptosystems - Pseudorandomness and sequences - Network security - Authentication - Block ciphers - Zero-knowledge protocols - Theory - Applications - Implementations.

The implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems.- Direct demonstration of the power to break public-key cryptosystems.- Continued fractions and the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm.- Nonlinear generators of binary sequences with controllable complexity and double key.- K-M sequence is forwardly predictable.- Lower bounds on the weight complexities of cascaded binary sequences.- Secure user access control for public networks.- Formal specification and verification of secure communication protocols.- Network security policy models.- KEYMEX: An expert system for the design of key management schemes.- On the formal analysis of PKCS authentication protocols.- Some remarks on authentication systems.- Meet-in-the-middle attack on digital signature schemes.- A binary sequence generator based on Ziv-Lempel source coding.- A fast iterative algorithm for a shift register initial state reconstruction given the noisy output sequence.- Parallel generation of pseudo-random sequences.- Large primes in stream cipher cryptography.- Comparison of block ciphers.- Key scheduling in des type cryptosystems.- LOKI — A cryptographic primitive for authentication and secrecy applications.- Permutation generators of alternating groups.- Showing credentials without identification transferring signatures between unconditionally unlinkable pseudonyms.- A (non-practical) three-pass identification protocol using coding theory.- Demonstrating possession without revealing factors and its application.- Anonymous one-time signatures and flexible untraceable electronic cash.- Dyadic matrices and their potential significance in cryptography (abstract).- A note on strong Fibonacci pseudoprimes.- On the significance of the directed acyclic word graph in cryptology.- Solving equations in sequences.- Thepractical application of state of the art security in real environments.- RSA as a benchmark for multiprocessor machines.- Range equations and range matrices: a study in statistical database security.- Record encryption in distributed databases.- VLSI design for exponentiation in GF(2n).- A fast modular-multiplication module for smart cards.- Minòs: Extended user authentication.- Universal logic sequences.- The three faces of information security.- Secure cryptographic initialisation of remote terminals in an electronic funds transfer/point of sale system.