Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2001, held in Sydney, Australia, in July 2001.;The 38 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 91 submissions.;Among the topics addressed are systems security, network security, trust and access cotrol, authentication, cryptography, cryptanalysis, digital signatures, elliptic curve cryptology, and secret sharing and threshold schemes.