The three volume-set, LNCS 9814, LNCS 9815, and LNCS 9816, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2016. The 70 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 274 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: provable security for symmetric cryptography; asymmetric cryptography and cryptanalysis; cryptography in theory and practice; compromised systems; symmetric cryptanalysis; algorithmic number theory; symmetric primitives; asymmetric cryptography; symmetric cryptography; cryptanalytic tools; hardware-oriented cryptography; secure computation and protocols; obfuscation; quantum techniques; spooky encryption; IBE, ABE, and functional encryption; automated tools and synthesis; zero knowledge; theory.

The three volume-set, LNCS 10401, LNCS 10402, and LNCS 10403, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2017, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2017. The 72 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 311 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: functional encryption; foundations; two-party computation; bitcoin; multiparty computation; award papers; obfuscation; conditional disclosure of secrets; OT and ORAM; quantum; hash functions; lattices; signatures; block ciphers; authenticated encryption; public-key encryption, stream ciphers, lattice crypto; leakage and subversion; symmetric-key crypto, and real-world crypto.

Zusammenfassung: The 10-volume set, LNCS 14920-14929 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2024. The conference took place at Santa Barbara, CA, USA, during August 18-22, 2024. The 143 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 526 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Digital signatures; Part II: Cloud cryptography; consensus protocols; key exchange; public key encryption; Part III: Public-key cryptography with advanced functionalities; time-lock cryptography; Part IV: Symmetric cryptanalysis; symmetric cryptograph; Part V: Mathematical assumptions; secret sharing; theoretical foundations; Part VI: Cryptanalysis; new primitives; side-channels and leakage; Part VII: Quantum cryptography; threshold cryptography; Part VIII: Multiparty computation; Part IX: Multiparty computation; private information retrieval; zero-knowledge; Part X: Succinct arguments.

The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9665 + LNCS 9666 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 35th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in May 2016. The 62 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 274 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: (pseudo)randomness; LPN/LWE; cryptanalysis; masking; fully homomorphic encryption; number theory; hash functions; multilinear maps; message authentification codes; attacks on SSL/TLS; real-world protocols; robust designs; lattice reduction; latticed-based schemes; zero-knowledge; pseudorandom functions; multi-party computation; separations; protocols; round complexity; commitments; lattices; leakage; in differentiability; obfuscation; and automated analysis, functional encryption, and non-malleable codes.

The three-volume set, LNCS 11692, LNCS 11693, and LNCS 11694, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2019, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2019. The 81 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 378 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Award papers; lattice-based ZK; symmetric cryptography; mathematical cryptanalysis; proofs of storage; non-malleable codes; SNARKs and blockchains; homomorphic cryptography; leakage models and key reuse. Part II: MPC communication complexity; symmetric cryptanalysis; (post) quantum cryptography; leakage resilience; memory hard functions and privacy amplification; attribute based encryption; foundations. Part III: Trapdoor functions; zero knowledge I; signatures and messaging; obfuscation; watermarking; secure computation; various topics; zero knowledge II; key exchange and broadcast encryption.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2022, which was held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2022. The total of 100 papers included in the 4-volume proceedings LNCS 13507, 13508, 13509, 13510, was reviewed and selected from 455 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Cryptanalysis; randomness; quantum cryptography; advanced encryption systems; secure messaging; lattice-based zero knowledge; lattice-based signatures; blockchain; coding theory; public key cryptography; signatures, idealized models; lower bounds; secure hash functions; post-quantum cryptography; symmetric cryptanalysis; secret sharing and secure multiparty computation; unique topics; symmetric key theory; zero knowledge; and threshold signatures.

The four-volume set, LNCS 12825, LNCS 12826, LNCS 12827, and LNCS 12828, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 41st Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2021. Crypto has traditionally been held at UCSB every year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was an online event in 2021. The 103 full papers presented in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 426 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Award Papers; Signatures; Quantum Cryptography; Succinct Arguments. Part II: Multi-Party Computation; Lattice Cryptography; and Lattice Cryptanalysis. Part III: Models; Applied Cryptography and Side Channels; Cryptanalysis; Codes and Extractors; Secret Sharing. Part IV: Zero Knowledge; Encryption++; Foundations; Low-Complexity Cryptography; Protocols.