Arithmetic of Finite Fields

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2007, held in Madrid, Spain in June 2007.
The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on structures in finite fields, efficient implementation and architectures, efficient finite field arithmetic, classification and construction of mappings over finite fields, curve algebra, cryptography, codes, and discrete structures.