ACISP2001,theSixthAustralasianConferenceonInformationSecurityandP- vacy,washeldinSydney,Australia. TheconferencewassponsoredbyInfor- tionandNetworkedSystemSecurityResearch(INSSR),MacquarieUniversity, theAustralianComputerSociety,andtheUniversityofWesternSydney. Iam gratefultoalltheseorganizationsfortheirsupportoftheconference. Theaimofthisconferencewastodrawtogetherresearchers,designers,and usersofinformationsecuritysystemsandtechnologies. Theconferenceprogram addressedarangeofaspectsfromsystemandnetworksecuritytosecureInternet applicationstocryptographyandcryptanalysis. Thisyeartheprogramcomm- teeinvitedtwointernationalkeynotespeakersDr. YacovYacobifromMicrosoft Research (USA) and Dr. Cli?ord Neumann from the University of Southern California(USA). Dr. Yacobi stalkaddressedtheissuesoftrust,privacy,and anti-piracyinelectroniccommerce. Dr. Neumann saddresswasconcernedwith authorizationpolicyissuesandtheirenforcementinapplications. Theconferencereceived91papersfromAmerica,Asia,Australia,and- rope. The program committee accepted 38 papers and these were presented insome9sessionscoveringsystemsecurity,networksecurity,trustandaccess control,Authentication,cryptography,cryptanalysis,DigitalSignatures,Elliptic CurveBasedTechniques,andSecretSharingandThresholdSchemes. Thisyear theacceptedpaperscamefromarangeofcountries,including7fromAustralia, 8fromKorea,7fromJapan,3fromUK,3fromGermany,3fromUSA,2from Singapore,2fromCanadaand1fromBelgium,Estonia,andTaiwan. Organizingaconferencesuchasthisoneisatime-consumingtaskandIwould liketothankallthepeoplewhoworkedhardtomakethisconferenceasuccess. Inparticular,IwouldliketothankProgramCo-chairYiMuforhistirelesswork andthemembersoftheprogramcommitteeforputtingtogetheranexcellent program,andallthesessionchairsandspeakersfortheirtimeande?ort. Special thanks to Yi Mu, Laura Olsen, Rajan Shankaran, and Michael Hitchens for theirhelpwithlocalorganizationdetails. Finally,Iwouldliketothankallthe authorswhosubmittedpapersandalltheparticipantsofACISP2001. Ihope thattheprofessionalcontactsmadeatthisconference,thepresentations,and theproceedingshaveo?eredyouinsightsandideasthatyoucanapplytoyour owne?ortsinsecurityandprivacy. July2001 VijayVaradharajan AUSTRALASIANCONFERENCEON INFORMATIONSECURITYANDPRIVACY ACISP2001 Sponsoredby MacquarieUniversity AustralianComputerSociety General Chair: VijayVaradharajan MacquarieUniversity,Australia Program Chairs: VijayVaradharajan MacquarieUniversity,Australia YiMu MacquarieUniversity,Australia Program Committee: RossAnderson CambridgeUniversity,UK ColinBoyd QueenslandUniversityofTechnology,Australia EdDawson QueenslandUniversityofTechnology,Australia YvoDesmedt FloridaStateUniversity,USA PaulEngland Microsoft YairFrankel ColumbiaUniversity,USA AjoyGhosh UNISYS,Australia DieterGollman Microsoft JohnGordon ConceptLabs,UK KwangjoKim ICU,Korea ChuchangLiu DSTO,Australia MasahiroMambo TohokuUniversity,Japan WenboMao Hewlett-PackardLab. ,UK ChrisMitchell LondonUniversity,UK EijiOkamoto UniversityofWisconsin,USA JoePato Hewlett-PackardLab. ,USA JosefPieprzyk MacquarieUniversity,Australia BartPreneel KatholiekeUniversity,Belgium SteveRoberts WithamPtyLtd,Australia QingSihan AcademyofScience,China ReiSafavi-Naini UniversityofWollongong,Australia JenniferSeberry UniversityofWollongong,Australia YuliangZheng MonashUniversity,Australia TableofContents AFewThoughtsonE-Commerce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 YacovYacobi NewCBC-MACForgeryAttacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 KarlBrincat,ChrisJ. Mitchell CryptanalysisofaPublicKeyCryptosystemProposedatACISP2000. . . . 15 AmrYoussef,GuangGong ImprovedCryptanalysisoftheSelf-ShrinkingGenerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 ErikZenner,MatthiasKrause,StefanLucks AttacksBasedonSmallFactorsinVariousGroupStructures . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 ChrisPavlovski,ColinBoyd OnClassifyingConferenceKeyDistributionProtocols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Sha