Advances in Cryptology 1981 - 1997: Electronic Proceedings and...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 460 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition May 28, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 3540650695
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-3540650690
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Description
This book and CD-ROM presents the complete collection of all the proceedings of the 32 CRYPTO and EUROCRYPT conferences, held between 1981 and 1997.
Besides more than 14,500 papers of text in pdf format, the CD-ROM provides a easy to use interface for navigation, search tools, and indexes. The book gives a complete documentation of the conferences covered from the meta-cryptology point of view; it also provides a printed index listing all contributing authors. The CD-ROM is ready for use on most common platforms.

Reader Reviews
I love the idea of having a good-sized library of important research on CD-ROM. However, they really needed some people who were more technically competent to produce this CD-ROM. For example, they have not used the standard Rock Ridge CD format, so when mounted on a Unix system (and not using flags available only to root) it simply doesn't work: the filenames are treated as lower case, and all the links on the CD are in upper case. On a system like Windows, that can't distinguish between upper and lower case in filenames, this isn't a problem. But for those of us who don't use Windows it's a serious problem. I ended burning a copy of the CD with all upper-case file names, and that works -- but people who use Unix (including Linux) and don't have a CD burner are going to have some real problems. Secondly, the scanned pages are all in the standard Springer-Verlag small page format, but for some reason the scanned images are much larger with lots of whitespace at the bottom. That means that my standard acrobat setting of "fit page" has the text about 2/3 of the size that it should, and it's hard to read. It seems like any editorial person reviewing the scanned material would have recognized and tried to fix this problem. Finally, the book that accompanies the CD is just ridiculous -- it duplicates material on the CD, and simply adds to the production (and so retail) cost, and wastes paper. Overall, this is a valuable resource, and I'll hold on to it. I just wish the publishers had made some more intelligent choices along the way....