Author Description

EUROCRYPT 2000, the nineteenth annual Eurocrypt Conference, was sp- sored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), in - operation with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (research group for Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography, COSIC). The r st conference with the name 'Eurocrypt' took place in 1983, but the 1982 Workshop at Burg Feuerstein was the r st open meeting in Europe on cryptology; it has been included in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1440, which containsan electronic proceedings and index ofthe Crypto and Eurocrypt conferences 1981{1997. The program committee considered 150 papers and selected 39 for pres- tation at EUROCRYPT 2000. One paper was withdrawn by the authors. The program also included invited talks by Michael Walker (\On the Security of 3GPP Networks") and Tony Sale (\Colossus and the German Lorenz Cipher { Code Breaking in WW II"). In addition, Andy Clark kindly agreed to chair the traditional rump session for informal presentations of recent results.