Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2006

Invited Talk.- Whither Cryptography?.- Symmetric Cryptography: Attacks.- Non-randomness in eSTREAM Candidates Salsa20 and TSC-4.- Differential and Rectangle Attacks on Reduced-Round SHACAL-1.- Algebraic Attacks on Clock-Controlled Cascade Ciphers.- An Algorithm for Solving the LPN Problem and Its Application to Security Evaluation of the HB Protocols for RFID Authentication.- Hash Functions.- Update on Tiger.- RC4-Hash: A New Hash Function Based on RC4.- Security of VSH in the Real World.- Provable Security: Key Agreement.- Cryptanalysis of Two Provably Secure Cross-Realm C2C-PAKE Protocols.- Efficient and Provably Secure Generic Construction of Three-Party Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols.- On the Importance of Public-Key Validation in the MQV and HMQV Key Agreement Protocols.- Invited Talk.- Another Look at "Provable Security". II.- Provable Security: Public Key Cryptography.- Efficient CCA-Secure Public-Key Encryption Schemes from RSA-Related Assumptions.- General Conversion for Obtaining Strongly Existentially Unforgeable Signatures.- Conditionally Verifiable Signature.- Constant Phase Bit Optimal Protocols for Perfectly Reliable and Secure Message Transmission.- Symmetric Cryptography: Design.- Using Wiedemann's Algorithm to Compute the Immunity Against Algebraic and Fast Algebraic Attacks.- Enciphering with Arbitrary Small Finite Domains.- Enumeration of 9-Variable Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions Having Nonlinearity > 240.- Modes of Operation and Message Authentication Codes.- Symmetric Nonce Respecting Security Model and the MEM Mode of Operation.- HCH: A New Tweakable Enciphering Scheme Using the Hash-Encrypt-Hash Approach.- Efficient Shared-Key Authentication Scheme from Any Weak Pseudorandom Function.- A Simple and Unified Method of Proving Indistinguishability.- Fast Implementation of Public Key Cryptography.- Extended Double-Base Number System with Applications to Elliptic Curve Cryptography.- CMSS - An Improved Merkle Signature