Cryptanalysis -- Attacking the Chor-Rivest Cryptosystem by Improved Lattice Reduction -- Convergence in Differential Distributions -- A Generalization of Linear Cryptanalysis and the Applicability of Matsui’s Piling-up Lemma -- Signatures -- On the Efficiency of Group Signatures Providing Information-Theoretic Anonymity -- Verifiable Signature Sharing -- Server(Prover/Signer)-Aided Verification of Identity Proofs and Signatures -- Number Theory -- Counting the number of points on elliptic curves over finite fields: strategies and performances -- An Implementation of the General Number Field Sieve to Compute Discrete Logarithms mod p -- A Block Lanczos Algorithm for Finding Dependencies over GF(2) -- Protocol Aspects -- How to Break Another “Provably Secure” Payment System -- Quantum Oblivious Mutual Identification -- Securing Traceability of Ciphertexts — Towards a Secure Software Key Escrow System -- Secure Multiround Authentication Protocols -- Secret Sharing -- Verifiable Secret Sharing as Secure Computation -- Efficient Secret Sharing Without a Mutually Trusted Authority -- General Short Computational Secret Sharing Schemes -- Electronic Cash -- Fair Blind Signatures -- Ripping Coins for a Fair Exchange -- Restrictive Binding of Secret-Key Certificates -- Shift Registers and Boolean Functions -- Towards Fast Correlation Attacks on Irregularly Clocked Shift Registers -- Large Period Nearly deBruijn FCSR Sequences -- On Nonlinear Resilient Functions -- Authentication Codes -- Combinatorial Bounds for Authentication Codes with Arbitration -- New Hash Functions for Message Authentication -- A 2—codes from universal hash classes -- New Schemes -- A New Identification Scheme Based on the Perceptrons Problem -- Fast RSA-type Schemes Based on Singular Cubic Curves y 2 + axy ? x 3 (mod n) -- Complexity Aspects -- Relationships among the Computational Powers of Breaking Discrete Log Cryptosystems -- Universal Hash Functions & Hard Core Bits -- Recycling Random Bits in Composed Perfect Zero-Knowledge -- Implementation Aspects -- On the Matsumoto and Imai’s Human Identification Scheme -- Receipt-Free Mix-Type Voting Scheme -- Are Crypto-Accelerators Really Inevitable? -- Rump Session -- Anonymous NIZK Proofs of Knowledge with Preprocessing.