This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2004, held at Jeju Island, Korea in December 2004. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block ciphers, public key encryption, number theory and applications, secure computation, hash functions, key management, identification, XL algorithms, digital signatures, public key cryptanalysis, symmetric key cryptanalysis, and cryptographic protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2005, held in Chennai, India in December 2005. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 237 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algebra and number theory, multiparty computation, zero knowledge and secret sharing, information and quantum theory, privacy and anonymity, cryptanalytic techniques, stream cipher cryptanalysis, block ciphers and hash functions, bilinear maps, key agreement, provable security, and digital signatures.

Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2010, held in Singapore, in December 2010. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 216 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on hash attacks; symmetric-key cryptosystems; block and stream ciphers; protocols; key exchange; foundation; zero-knowledge; lattice-based cryptography; secure communication and computation; models, notions, and assumptions; and public-key encryption.

The 10th Annual ASIACRYPT 2004 was held in Jeju Island, Korea, d- ing December 5–9, 2004. This conference was organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in cooperation with KIISC (- rean Institute of Information Security and Cryptology) and IRIS (International Research center for Information Security) at ICU (Information and Communi- tionsUniversity),andwas?nanciallysupportedbyMIC(MinistryofInformation and Communication) in Korea. The conference received, from 30 countries, 208 submissions that represent the current state of work in the cryptographic community worldwide, covering all areas of cryptologic research. Each paper, without the authors’ information, was reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, and the papers (co-)authored by members of the program committee were reviewed by at least six members. We also blinded the reviewers’ names among the reviewers until the ?nal decision, by using pseudonyms. The reviews were then followed by deep discussions on the papers, which greatly contributed to the quality of the ?nal selection. In most cases, extensive comments were sent to the authors. Among 208 submissions, the program committee selected 36 papers. Two submissions were merged into a single paper, yielding the total of 35 papers acceptedforpresentationinthetechnicalprogramoftheconference.Manyhi- quality works could not be accepted because of the competitive nature of the conference and the challenging task of selecting a program. These proceedings contain revised versions of the accepted papers. These revisions have not been checked for correctness, and the authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers.

The two-volume set LNCS 9452 and 9453 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November/December 2015. The 64 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully selected from 251 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on indistinguishability obfuscation; PRFs and hashes; discrete logarithms and number theory; signatures; multiparty computation; public key encryption; ABE and IBE; zero-knowledge; attacks on ASASA; number field sieve; hashes and MACs; symmetric encryption; foundations; side-channel attacks; design of block ciphers; authenticated encryption; symmetric analysis; cryptanalysis; privacy and lattices.

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