Cryptology And Network Security

This book contains revised versions of all the papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in November/ December 2017.
The 20 full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The full papers are organized in the following topical sections: foundation of applied cryptography; processing encrypted data; predicate encryption; credentials and authentication; web security; Bitcoin and blockchain; embedded system security; anonymous and virtual private networks; and wireless and physical layer security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2020, held in Vienna, Austria, in December 2020.*

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2016, held in Milan, Italy, in November 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2021, which was held during December 13-15, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Vienna, Austria, and changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2019, held in Fuzhou, China, in October 2019.