This book contains revised selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2017, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada in August 2017. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The focus of the conference was on specific themes in the area of cryptographic system design and analysis such as: Design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems Primitives for symmetric key cryptography, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, and MAC algorithms Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms

This book contains revised selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2018, held in Calgary, AB, Canada in August 2018. The 22 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They cover the following research areas: design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC algorithms, and authenticated encryption schemes efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology cryptography for the Internet of Things

This book contains revised selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2019, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in August 2019. The 26 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. They cover the following research areas: Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC algorithms, and authenticated encryption schemes, efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms, mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology, cryptography for the Internet of Things.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 28th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2021, held as a virtual event September and October 2021.* The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They cover the following research areas: design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC algorithms, and authenticated encryption schemes, efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms, mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology, and secure elections and related cryptographic constructions. *The conference was originally planned to take place at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was held virtually.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2016, held in St. John's, NL, Canada in August 2016. The 28 full papers and 2 invited papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: side channels and fault attacks; design and implementation of symmetric cryptography; efficient symmetric primitives; cryptanalysis of symmetric primitives; MACs and PRNGs; lattice-based cryptography; and cryptanalysis of asymmetric primitives.

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