. Editors' Address .................................................. 1
        Tosiro KOGA and Shuji TSUKIYAMA

Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security
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 . FOREWORD .......................................................... 3
        Masayasu HATA

PAPERS
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 . One-Way Functions over Finite Near-Rings .......................... 4
        Eikoh CHIDA, Hiroki SHIZUYA and Takao NISHIZEKI

 . Propagation Characteristics of Boolean Functions and Their
   Balancedness ..................................................... 11
        Shouichi HIROSE and Katsuo IKEDA

 . Alternative Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Collision
   Intractable Hashing .............................................. 19
        Toshiya ITOH and Kei HAYASHI

 . A New RSA-Type Scheme Based on Singular Cubic Curves y2��x3�{bx2
   (mod n) .......................................................... 27
        Hidenori KUWAKADO, Kenji KOYAMA and Yukio TSURUOKA

 . 4-Move Perfect ZKIP for Some Promise Problems .................... 34
        Kaoru KUROSAWA, Wakaha OGATA and Shigeo TSUJII

 . Checkers for Adaptive Programs ................................... 42
        Toshiya ITOH and Masahiro TAKEI

 . A New Class of Non-interactive ID-Based Key Sharing Schemes and Its
   Performances ..................................................... 51
        Ryuichi SAKAI and Masao KASAHARA

 . Information Leakage Measurement in a Distributed Computation
   Protocol ......................................................... 59
        Shin-ichi KAWAMURA

 . An Electronic Retail Payment System with Distributed Control --A
   Conceptual Design-- .............................................. 67
        Tsutomu MATSUMOTO

 . A Key Distribution Protocol for Mobile Communication Systems ..... 77
        Choonsik PARK, Kaoru KUROSAWA and Shigeo TSUJII

LETTERS
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 . Two Algorithms for Modular Exponentiation Using Nonstandard
   Arithmetics ...................................................... 82
        Vassil DIMITROV and Todor COOKLEV

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Computer Aided Design (CAD)]

 . A Parallel BBD Matrix Solution for MIMD Parallel Circuit Simulation
            ......................................................... 88
        Tetsuro KAGE and Junichi NIITSUMA

[Information Theory and Coding Theory]

 . A Code Construction for M-Choose-T Communication over the
   Multiple-Access Adder Channel .................................... 94
        Kin-ichiroh TOKIWA, Hiroshi MATSUDA and Hatsukazu TANAKA

 . A Convolutional Coded ARQ Scheme with Retransmission Criterion Based
   on an Estimated Decoding Error Rate ............................. 100
        Hiroyuki FUJIWARA, Hirosuke YAMAMOTO and Jinqiao REN

[Nonlinear Phenomena and Analysis]

 . Total Harmonic Distortion Measurement Using the Simplified Volterra
   Series with the LMS Adaptive Algorithm .......................... 111
        Luke S.L.HSIEH and Sally L.WOOD

[Numerical Analysis and Self-Validation]

 . Finding All Solutions of Piecewise-Linear Resistive Circuits
   Containing Sophisticated Transistor Models ...................... 117
        Kiyotaka YAMAMURA and Nobuo SEKIGUCHI

LETTERS
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[Acoustics]

 . Some New Type Regression Analysis Methods for Acoustic Environmental
   System Based on the Introduction of Multiplicative Noise ........ 123
        Mitsuo OHTA and Akira IKUTA

[Digital Signal Processing]

 . Moving Target Extraction and Image Coding Based on Motion
   Information ..................................................... 127
        Jong-Bae LEE and Seong-Dae KIM

[Graphs, Networks and Matroids]

 . On the Proper-Path-Decomposition of Trees ....................... 131
        Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Shuichi UENO and Yoji KAJITANI

[Information Theory and Coding Theory]

 . Entropies and Average Mutual Informations for a 'Choseong,' a 'Jungseong,'
    and a 'Jongseong' in Multi-Syllable Korean Words ............... 137
        Jae Hong LEE and Chaehag YI

[VLSI Design Technology]

 . The Effect of Internal Parasitic Capacitances in Series-Connected
   MOS Structure ................................................... 142
        Sang Heon LEE, Song Bai PARK and Kyu Ho PARK

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-A, No.1 in Japanese) ........... 146