Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2012

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2012, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in May 2012. The 41 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The book also contains one invited talk. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: homomorphic encryption and LWE, signature schemes, code-based and multivariate crypto, public key encryption: special properties, identity-based encryption, public-key encryption: constructions, secure two-party and multi-party computations, key exchange and secure sessions, public-key encryption: relationships, DL, DDH, and more number theory, and beyond ordinary signature schemes.

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Johannes A. Buchmann is Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cryptology. In 1985, he received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has also received the most prestigious award in science in Germany, the Leibniz Award of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).