Download or read book Public-Key Cryptography -- PKC 2014 written by Hugo Krawczyk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2014, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 2014. The 38 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on chosen ciphertext security, re-encryption, verifiable outsourcing, cryptanalysis, identity and attribute-based encryption, enhanced encryption, signature schemes, related-key security, functional authentication, quantum impossibility, privacy, protocols.