Security in Communication Networks [electronic resource] : Third International Conference, SCN 2002 Amalfi, Italy, September 11–13, 2002 Revised Papers / edited by Stelvio Cimato, Giuseppe Persiano, Clemente Galdi.

Invited Talks -- Some Applications of Polynomials for the Design of Cryptographic Protocols -- Secure Multi-party Computation Made Simple -- Forward Security -- Forward Secrecy in Password-Only Key Exchange Protocols -- Weak Forward Security in Mediated RSA -- Foundations of Cryptography -- On the Power of Claw-Free Permutations -- Equivocable and Extractable Commitment Schemes -- An Improved Pseudorandom Generator Based on Hardness of Factoring -- Intrusion-Resilient Signatures: Generic Constructions, or Defeating Strong Adversary with Minimal Assumptions -- Key Management -- Efficient Re-keying Protocols for Multicast Encryption -- On a Class of Key Agreement Protocols Which Cannot Be Unconditionally Secure -- A Group Key Distribution Scheme with Decentralised User Join -- Cryptanalysis -- On a Resynchronization Weakness in a Class of Combiners with Memory -- On Probability of Success in Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis -- Differential Cryptanalysis of a Reduced-Round SEED -- System Security -- Medical Information Privacy Assurance: Cryptographic and System Aspects -- A Format-Independent Architecture for Run-Time Integrity Checking of Executable Code -- Signature Schemes -- How to Repair ESIGN -- Forward-Secure Signatures with Fast Key Update -- Constructing Elliptic Curves with Prescribed Embedding Degrees -- A Signature Scheme with Efficient Protocols -- Zero Knowledge -- Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Some Practical Graph Problems -- Reduction Zero-Knowledge -- A New Notion of Soundness in Bare Public-Key Model -- Information Theory and Secret Sharing -- Robust Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval -- Trading Players for Efficiency in Unconditional Multiparty Computation -- Secret Sharing Schemes on Access Structures with Intersection Number Equal to One.