Advances in Cryptology - Crypto 2009 : 29th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, Ca, Usa, August 16-20, 2009, Proceedings

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and Privacy and the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.The conference was held in Santa Barbara, California, during August 16-20, 2009, and John Black served as the General Chair. The Program Committeeconsistedof29membersandtwoadvisorymembers, whosenamesare listed on the next page, and I had the privilege of serving as the ProgramChair. The conference received 213 submissions. The ProgramCommittee, aided by 217 external reviewers, reviewed all these submissions and discussed them in depth. After an intensive review period of 11 weeks, the committee accepted 40 of these submissions. Two pairs of submissions were merged, yielding a total of 38 papers in the technical program of the conference. These proceedings include the revised versions of the 38 papers that were presented at the conference. These revised papers were not subject to editorial review and the authors bear full responsibility for their contents. The best-paper award was given to the paper "ShortChosen-Pre?x Collisions for MD5 and the Creation of a Rogue CA Certi?cate" by Stevens, Sotirov, Appelbaum, Lenstra, Molnar, Osvik, and de Weger. The conference featured two invited lectures: one by Ed Felten and the other by Ueli Maurer. An abstract of Maurer's talk, titled "Abstraction in Crypt- raphy," is included in these proceedings. The program also included a Rump Session, featuring short informal talks on recent results and work in progress. I wish to thank all the authors who submitted their work to CRYPTO 2009.