Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT '95

EUROCRYPT '95. Sponsored by the International Association for Cryp- logic Research (IACR), in cooperation with the Centre Commun d'Etudes de T616vision et T61Qcommunications (CCETT), a workshop on the theory and - plications of cryptographic techniques takes place at the Palais du Grand Large, Saint Malo, France, May 21-25, 1995. The General Chair of EUROCRYPT '95 is Franqoise Scarabin. The Or- nization Committee was helped by Maryvonne Lahaie and her communication team. Moreover, the CCETT has generously provided the help of a young - glish lady, Miss Virginia Cooper, for the secretariat of both the Organization arid Program Committees. They all did an excellent job in preparing the conference. It is our pleasure to thank them for their essential work. IACR and EUROCRYPT. According to a very good suggestion expressed during CRYPTO '82, the Association was established at CRYPTO '83. Today, the Association has approximately 600 members and the mailing file managed by its Secretariat consists of more than 2 000 names. The main goal of the Association is the sponsoring of two annual conferences: CRYPTO, every summer at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and EUROCRYPT, every spring in a different European country. Moreover, the Association edits quarterly the Journal of Cryptology (JoC).