Information Security and Privacy : 8th Australasian Conference ACISP 2003 Wollongong Australia July 9 11 2003 Proceedings &nbsp; This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy ACISP 2003 held in Wollongong Australia in July 2003. The 42 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on privacy and anonymity elliptic curve cryptography cryptanalysis mobile and network security digital signatures cryptosystems key management and theory and hash functions