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Acknowledgements

I am deeply grateful to Feng Bao, Colin Boyd, Richard DeMillo, Steven Galbraith, Dieter Gollmann, Keith Harrison, Marcus Leech, Helger Lipmaa, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Javier Lopez, John
Malone-Lee, Cary Meltzer, Christian Paquin, Kenny Paterson, David Pointcheval, Vincent Rijmen,
Nigel Smart, David Soldera, Paul van Oorschot, Serge Vaudenay and Stefek Zaba. These people
gave generously of their time to review chapters or the whole book and provide invaluable comments, criticisms and suggestions which make the book better.

The book also benefits from the following people answering my questions: Mihir Bellare, Jan
Camenisch, Neil Dunbar, Yair Frankel, Shai Halevi, Antoine Joux, Marc Joye, Chalie Kaufman, Adrian Kent, Hugo Krawczyk, Catherine Meadows, Bill Munro, Phong Nguyen, Radia Perlman,Marco Ricca, Ronald Rivest, Steve Schneider, Victor Shoup, Igor Shparlinski and Moti Yung.

I would also like to thank Jill Harry at Prentice-Hall PTR and Susan Wright at HP Professional
Books for introducing me to book writing and for the encouragement and professional support
they provided during the lengthy period of manuscript writing. Thanks also to Jennifer Blackwell,
Robin Carroll, Brenda Mulligan, Justin Somma and Mary Sudul at Prentice-Hall PTR and to Walter Bruce and Pat Pekary at HP Professional Books.

I am also grateful to my colleagues at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol, including David Ball,Richard Cardwell, Liqun Chen, Ian Cole, Gareth Jones, Stephen Pearson and Martin Sadler for
technical and literature services and management support.