Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2004, held in Interlaken, Switzerland in May 2004.The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 206 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on private computation, signatures, inconditional security, distributed cryptography, foundations, identity based encryption, elliptic curves, public-key cryptography, multiparty computation, cryptanalysis, new applications, algorithms and implementation, and anonymity.