This book contains the proceedings of AUSCRYPT '92, aninternational conference on cryptologic research held on theGold Coast, Australia, in December 1992. This is the thirdconference held outside the series of CRYPTO meetings heldin Santa Barbara, California, each August and EUROCRYPTmeetings held in European countries each northern spring.The first two were AUSCRYPT '90, held in Australia, andASIACRYPT '91, held in Japan.The volume contains three invited papers and 44 contributedpapers selected from 77 submissions. The articles cover allmain topics in modern computer and communications securityresearch.These include:- authentication- secret sharing- digital signatures- one-way hashing functions- design of block ciphers- cryptanalysis- cryptographic protocols- pseudo-random sequences and functions- public key cryptography.