This book contains the proceedings of AUSCRYPT '92, an
international conference on cryptologic research held on the
Gold Coast, Australia, in December 1992. This is the third
conference held outside the series of CRYPTO meetings held
in Santa Barbara, California, each August and EUROCRYPT
meetings held in European countries each northern spring.
The first two were AUSCRYPT '90, held in Australia, and
ASIACRYPT '91, held in Japan.
The volume contains three invited papers and 44 contributed
papers selected from 77 submissions. The articles cover all
main topics in modern computer and communications security
research.These include:
- authentication
- secret sharing
- digital signatures
- one-way hashing functions
- design of block ciphers
- cryptanalysis
- cryptographic protocols
- pseudo-random sequences and functions
- public key cryptography.