SAC 2003 was the tenth in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography. This marked the third time that the workshop had been held at Carleton University in Ottawa with previous workshops being held there in 1995 and 1997. The intent of the SAC workshops is to provide a relaxed atmosphere in which researchers in cryptography can present and discuss new work on selected areas of current interest.
The themes for the SAC 2003 workshop were:
design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems,
primitives for symmetric key cryptography, including block and stream ciphers,
hash functions, and MACs,
efficient implementation of cryptographic systems in public and symmetric
key cryptography,
cryptographic solutions for Web services security,
cryptography and security of trusted and distributed systems.