Applied Cryptography and Network Security

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2007, held in Zhuhai, China, in June 2007.
The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 260 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on signature schemes, computer and network security, cryptanalysis, group-oriented security, cryptographic protocols, anonymous authentication, identity-based cryptography, security in wireless, ad-hoc, and peer-to-peer networks, as well as efficient implementation.