Public Key Cryptography: E.i.s.s. Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, July 3-6, 1991. Final Report (State of the Art and Future Direction - E.i.s.s. Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, July 3-6, 1991 - Final Report) - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-97). Description for Sales People: This report on the state of the art and future directions of public-key cryptography is published in accordance with the terms of reference of the European Institute for System Security and is addressed to all members of the general computer science community. Table of Contents: Scope of the workshop.- List of topics chosen through self-assessment.- Short classification and description of the most prominent public-key systems.- Public-key cryptography depending on computational number theory.- Public-key systems: Mistakes and problems.- Projection of needs and requirements for public-key systems.

Contributor Bio:  Beth, Thomas Thomas Beth studied mathematics, physics and medicine. He received his Ph. D. in 1978 and his Postdoctoral Lecturer Qualification (Dr.-Ing. habil.) in informatics in 1984. From a position as Professor of computer science at the University of London he was apppointed to a chair of informatics at the University of Karlsruhe. He also is the director of the European Institute for System Security (E. I. S. S.). In the past decade he has built up a research center for quantum information at the Institute for Algorithms and Cognitive Systems (IAKS). Gerd Leuchs studied physics and mathematics at the University of Cologne and received his Ph. D. in 1978. After two research visits at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he headed the German Gravitational Wave Detection Group from 1985 to 1989. He then went on to be the technical director of Nanomach AG in Switzerland for four years. Since 1994 he holds the chair for optics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His fields of research span the range from modern aspects of classical optics to quantum optics and quantum information. Contributor Bio:  Simmons, Gustavus J Simmons received his Ph. D., degree in mathematics from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He is Senior Fellow for National Security Stuides at the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.