Selected Areas in Cryptography [electronic resource] : 15th Annual International Workshop, SAC 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, August 14-15, 2008 /

Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Arithmetic -- Faster Halvings in Genus 2 -- Efficient Pairing Computation on Genus 2 Curves in Projective Coordinates -- On Software Parallel Implementation of Cryptographic Pairings -- Block Ciphers I -- The Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round SMS4 -- Building Secure Block Ciphers on Generic Attacks Assumptions -- First Invited Talk -- Lifting and Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms -- Hash Functions I -- Preimage Attacks on One-Block MD4, 63-Step MD5 and More -- Preimage Attacks on 3-Pass HAVAL and Step-Reduced MD5 -- Cryptanalysis of Tweaked Versions of SMASH and Reparation -- Mathematical Aspects of Applied Cryptography I -- Counting Functions for the k-Error Linear Complexity of 2 n -Periodic Binary Sequences -- On the Exact Success Rate of Side Channel Analysis in the Gaussian Model -- Stream Ciphers Cryptanalysis -- Algebraic and Correlation Attacks against Linearly Filtered Non Linear Feedback Shift Registers -- A Cache Timing Analysis of HC-256 -- An Improved Fast Correlation Attack on Stream Ciphers -- Hash Functions II -- A Three-Property-Secure Hash Function -- Analysis of the Collision Resistance of RadioGatúnUsing Algebraic Techniques -- A Scheme to Base a Hash Function on a Block Cipher -- Collisions and Other Non-random Properties for Step-Reduced SHA-256 -- Cryptography with Algebraic Curves -- Public Verifiability from Pairings in Secret Sharing Schemes -- The Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem and Equivalent Hard Problems for Elliptic Divisibility Sequences -- Second Invited Talk – Stafford Tavares Lecture -- The “Coefficients H” Technique -- Mathematical Aspects of Applied Cryptography II -- Distinguishing Multiplications from Squaring Operations -- Subquadratic Polynomial Multiplication over GF(2 m ) Using Trinomial Bases and ChineseRemaindering -- Bounds on Fixed Input/Output Length Post-processing Functions for Biased Physical Random Number Generators -- Curve-Based Primitives in Hardware -- HECC Goes Embedded: An Area-Efficient Implementation of HECC -- ECC Is Ready for RFID – A Proof in Silicon -- Block Ciphers II -- Cryptanalysis of a Generic Class of White-Box Implementations -- New Linear Cryptanalytic Results of Reduced-Round of CAST-128 and CAST-256 -- Improved Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round Camellia.