paperwasanonymouslyreviewedbyatleastthreecommitteemembers. Inorderto encourageandpromotestudentparticipation, theISC2008ProgramCommittee selected three student-coauthored papers for the Best Student Paper award, one fromeachregion:Asia, Europe, andtheAmericas. Thepaperswere, respectively, "Deterministic Constructions of 21-Step Collisions for the SHA-2 Hash Family," bySomitraSanadhyaandPalashSarkar(IndianStatisticalInstitute, India),"C- lisions for RC4-Hash," by Sebastiaan Indesteege and Bart Preneel (Katholieke UniversiteitLeuven, Belgium),and"ProxyRe-signaturesintheStandardModel," byShermanS. M. Chow(New YorkUniversity, USA) andRaphaelPhan(Lou- borough University, UK). The program also included invited speeches by Doug Tygar(UC Berkeley, USA) andTatsuakiOkamoto(NTT, Japan). Many people helped to make ISC 2008 successful. We would like to thank all thosewhocontributedtothetechnicalprogramandtoorganizingtheconference. | Information Security by Tzong-Chen Wu, Paperback | Indigo Chapters