Topics in Cryptology - CT-RSA 2001: The Cryptographer's Track at RSA Conference 2001 San Francisco, CA, USA, April 8-12, 2001 Proceedings [Paperback]

You are holding the rst in a hopefully long and successful series of RSA Cr- tographers Track proceedings. The Cryptographers Track (CT-RSA) is one of the many parallel tracks of the yearly RSA Conference. Other sessions deal with government projects, law and policy issues, freedom and privacy news, analysts opinions, standards, ASPs, biotech and healthcare, nance, telecom and wireless security, developers, new products, implementers, threats, RSA products, VPNs, as well as cryp- graphy and enterprise tutorials. RSA Conference 2001 is expected to continue the tradition and remain the largest computer security event ever staged: 250 vendors, 10,000 visitors and 3,000 class-going attendees are expected in San Francisco next year. I am very grateful to the 22 members of the program committee for their hard work. The program committee received 65 submissions (one of which was later withdrawn) for which review was conducted electronically; almost all papers had at least two reviews although most had three or more. Eventually, we accepted the 33 papers that appear in these proceedings. Revisions were not checked on their scienti c aspects and some authors will write nal versions of their papers for publication in refereed journals. As is usual, authors bear full scienti c and paternity responsibilities for the contents of their papers.New Cryptosystems.- Faster Generation of NICE-Schnorr-Type Signatures.- New Key Agreement Protocols in Braid Group Cryptography.- RSA.- Improving SSL Handshake Performance via Batching.- From Fixed-Length Messages to Arbitrary-Length Messages Practical RSA Signature Padding Schemes.- An Advantage of Low-Exponent RSA with Modulus Primes Sharing Least Significant Bits.- Symmetric Cryptography.- On the Strength of Simply-Iterated Feistel Ciphers with Whitening Keys.- Analysis of SHA-1 in Encryption Mode.- Fast Implementation and Fair Comparison of the Final Candidates for Advanced Encryption Standard Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays.- GalӬ