Information Security and Privacy : 7th Australasian Conference ACISP 2002 Melbourne Australia July 3–5 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy ACISP 2002 held in Melbourne Australia in July 2002.The 36 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on key handling trust and secret sharing fast computation cryptanalysis elliptic curves advanced encryption standard AES security management authentication oblivious transfer and dealing with adversaries