Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, PKC'99, held in Kamakura, Japan in March 1999.;The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 61 submissions.;The volume reports most recent research results on all relevant aspects in public key cryptography.;Among the topics covered are digital signatures, anonymous finger printing, message authentication, digital payment, key escrow, RSA systems, hash functions, decision oracles, random numbers, finite field computations, pay-per-view-systems, and electronic commerce.