Information Security and Cryptoloy - ICISC 2008: 11th International Conference Seoul

ICISC 2008, the 11th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, was held in Seoul, Korea, during December 3-5, 2008. It was or- nized by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC). The aim of this conference was to provide a forum for the presentation of new results in research, development, and applications in the ?eld of infor- tion security and cryptology. It also served as a place for research information exchange. The conference received131submissions from28 countries, coveringall areas of information security and cryptology. The review and selection processes were carried out in two stages by the Program Committee (PC) of 62 prominent researchers via online meetings, using the We-Submission-and-Review software written by Shai Halevi, IBM. First, at least three PC members blind-reviewed each paper, and papers co-authored by the PC members were reviewed by at least ?ve PC members. Second, individual review reports were revealed to PC members, followedbydetailedinteractivediscussiononeachpaper. Throughthis process, thePC?nallyselected26papersfrom14countries. Theacceptancerate was 19. 8%. The authors of selected papers had a few weeks to prepare for their ?nal versions based on the comments received from more than 136 external reviewers. These revised papers were not subject to editorial review and the authors bear full responsibility for their contents. The conference featured one tutorial and two invited talks. The tutorial was given by Masayuki Abe from NTT. The invited speakers for two talks were Vincent Rijmen from K. U. L. & Graz University of Tech and Jong-Deok Choi from Samsung Electronics.