Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2001

These are the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2001, held in Innsbruck, Austria in May 2001. The papers are organized in topical sections on elliptic curves, commitments, anonymity, signatures and hash functions, XTR and NTRU, assumptions, multiparty protocols, block ciphers, primitives, symmetric ciphers, key exchange and multicast, and authentication and identification.