Download or read book Progress in Cryptology -- AFRICACRYPT 2011 written by Abderrahmane Nitaj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2011, held in Dakar, Senegal, in July 2011. The 23 papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on protocols, cryptanalysis, secret-key cryptography, efficient implementations, cryptographic schemes, algorithmic problems, elliptic curves, fault analysis, and security proofs.