Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security in Communication Networks, SCN 2002, held in Amalfi, Italy in September 2002.;The 24 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully selected from 90 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and revision.;The papers are organized in topical sections on forward security, foundations of cryptography, key management, cryptanalysis, systems security, digital signature schemes, zero knowledge, and information theory and secret sharing.