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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Security, ICICS 2002, held in Singapore in December 2002. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 161 submissions....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2004, held in Yellow Mountain, China, in June 2004. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 297 submissions....