Advances in Cryptology - Asiacrypt'98

The submitted version of each paper was sent to all members of the Program Committee and was extensively examined by at least three committee members and/or outside experts. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT'98, held in Beijing, China, in October 1998.The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 118 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on public-key cryptosystems, elliptic-curve cryptosystems, cryptanalysis, digital signature schemes, finite automata, authentication codes, electronic cash, stream ciphers, cryptographic protocols, key escrow, new cryptography, and information theory.