This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2006, held in Singapore in June 2006.The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 218 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on intrusion detection and avoidance, cryptographic applications, DoS attacks and countermeasures, key management, cryptanalysis, security of limited devices, cryptography, authentication and Web security, ad-hoc and sensor network security, cryptographic constructions, and security and privacy.
Intrusion Avoidance and Detection Adaptive Detection of Local Scanners Probabilistic Proof of an Algorithm to Compute TCP Packet Round-Time for Intrusion Detection DSO:Dependable Signing Overlay Cryptographic Applications Do Broken Hash Functions Affect the Security of Time-Stamping Schemes? A Handy Multi-coupon System An Efficient Single-Key Pirates Tracing Scheme Using Cover-Free Families DoS:Attacks and Countermeasures Efficient Memory Bound Puzzles Pattern Databases Effect of Malicious Synchronization Misusing Unstructured P2P Systems to Perfrom DoS Attacks:The Network That Never Forgets Key Management Password Based Server Aided Key Exchange Secure Password-Based Authenticated Group Key Agreement for Data-Sharing Peer-to-Peer Networks Stateful SuBset Cover Cryptanalysis The Rainbow Attack on Stream Ciphers Based on Maiouana-McFarland Functions Breaking a New Instance of TTM Cryptosystems Cpyptanalysis of the N-Party Encrypted Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Using Different Passwords Security of Limited Devices An AES Smart Card Implementation Resistant to Power Analysis Attacks Physical Security Bounds Against Tampering Flexible Exponentiation with Resistance to Side Channel Attacks Cryptography An Improved Poly1305 MAC …… Authentication and Web Security Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Cryptogtaphic Constructions Security and Privacy Author Index