Information Security

paperwasanonymouslyreviewedbyatleastthreecommitteemembers.Inorderto encourageandpromotestudentparticipation,theISC2008ProgramCommittee selected three student-coauthored papers for the Best Student Paper award,one fromeachregion:Asia,Europe,andtheAmericas.Thepaperswere,respectively, ¿Deterministic Constructions of 21-Step Collisions for the SHA-2 Hash Family,¿ bySomitraSanadhyaandPalashSarkar(IndianStatisticalInstitute,India),¿C- lisions for RC4-Hash,¿ by Sebastiaan Indesteege and Bart Preneel (Katholieke UniversiteitLeuven,Belgium),and¿ProxyRe-signaturesintheStandardModel,¿ byShermanS.M. Chow(New YorkUniversity,USA) andRaphaelPhan(Lou- borough University, UK). The program also included invited speeches by Doug Tygar(UC Berkeley,USA) andTatsuakiOkamoto(NTT, Japan). Many people helped to make ISC 2008 successful. We would like to thank all thosewhocontributedtothetechnicalprogramandtoorganizingtheconference.