Security Protocols.- Strong and Robust RFID Authentication Enabling Perfect Ownership Transfer.- A Robust and Secure RFID-Based Pedigree System (Short Paper).- A Topological Condition for Solving Fair Exchange in Byzantine Environments.- A Security Analysis of the Precise Time Protocol (Short Paper).- Applied Crytography.- An Identity-Based Proxy Signature Scheme from Pairings.- Finding Compact Reliable Broadcast in Unknown Fixed-Identity Networks (Short Paper).- Formal Analysis and Systematic Construction of Two-Factor Authentication Scheme (Short Paper).- Hierarchical Key Assignment for Black-Box Tracing with Efficient Ciphertext Size.- Trace-Driven Cache Attacks on AES (Short Paper).- Access Control and Systems Security.- A Construction for General and Efficient Oblivious Commitment Based Envelope Protocols.- Defining and Measuring Policy Coverage in Testing Access Control Policies.- Distributed Credential Chain Discovery in Trust Management with Parameterized Roles and Constraints (Short Paper).- An Operating System Design for the Security Architecture for Microprocessors.- Privacy and Malicious Code.- Point-Based Trust: Define How Much Privacy Is Worth.- Efficient Protocols for Privacy Preserving Matching Against Distributed Datasets.- Quantifying Information Leakage in Tree-Based Hash Protocols (Short Paper).- An Anonymous Authentication Scheme for Identification Card.- A Wireless Covert Channel on Smart Cards (Short Paper).- Network Security.- From Proxy Encryption Primitives to a Deployable Secure-Mailing-List Solution.- Mathematical Foundations for the Design of a Low-Rate DoS Attack to Iterative Servers (Short Paper).- An Independent Function-Parallel Firewall Architecture for High-Speed Networks (Short Paper).- Estimating Accuracy of Mobile-Masquerader Detection Using Worst-Case and Best-Case Scenario.- An Enhanced N-Way Exchange-Based Incentive Scheme for P2P File Sharing (Short Paper).- Systems Security.- Provably Correct Runtime Enforcement of Non-interference Properties.- An Attack on SMC-Based Software Protection.- Modular Behavior Profiles in Systems with Shared Libraries (Short Paper).- Efficient Protection Against Heap-Based Buffer Overflows Without Resorting to Magic.- Cryptanalysis.- Cryptanalysis of Timestamp-Based Password Authentication Schemes Using Smart Cards.- Cryptanalysis of ID-Based Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols from Bilinear Pairings (Short Paper).- Seifert's RSA Fault Attack: Simplified Analysis and Generalizations.- The Fairness of Perfect Concurrent Signatures.- Applied Cryptography and Network Security.- Secure Set Membership Using 3Sat.- Left-to-Right Signed-Bit ?-Adic Representations of n Integers (Short Paper).- Universal Designated Verifier Signature Without Delegatability.- Tracing HTTP Activity Through Non-cooperating HTTP Proxies (Short Paper).- Security Implementations.- A Fast RSA Implementation on Itanium 2 Processor.- Efficient Implementation of Public Key Cryptosystems on Mote Sensors (Short Paper).- Threshold Implementations Against Side-Channel Attacks and Glitches.- Hardware-and-Software-Based Security Architecture for Broadband Router (Short Paper).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2006, held in Raleigh, NC, USA, December 2006. The 22 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers cover security protocols, applied cryptography, access control, privacy and malicious code, network security, systems security, cryptanalysis, applied cryptography and network security, and security implementations.