Topics in Cryptology -- CT-RSA 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2004, CT-RSA 2004, held in San Francisco, CA, USA in February 2004.The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, protocols, side-channel attacks, hardware, modes of operation, hash and hash chains, visual cryptography, and elliptic curve cryptosystems.