Progress in Cryptology -- INDOCRYPT 2003

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cryptology in India, INDOCRYPT 2003, held in New Delhi, India in December 2003. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on stream ciphers, block ciphers, Boolean functions, secret sharing, bilinear pairings, public key cryptography, signature schemes, protocols, elliptic curve cryptography and algebraic geometry, implementation and digital watermarking, and authentication.