This two-volume set LNICST 398 and 399 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 56 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The papers focus on the latest scientific research results in security and privacy in wired, mobile, hybrid and ad hoc networks, in IoT technologies, in cyber-physical systems, in next-generation communication systems in web and systems security and in pervasive and ubiquitous computing.

This two-volume set LNICST 398 and 399 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2021, held in September 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 56 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The papers focus on the latest scientific research results in security and privacy in wired, mobile, hybrid and ad hoc networks, in IoT technologies, in cyber-physical systems, in next-generation communication systems in web and systems security and in pervasive and ubiquitous computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2019, held in Bogota, Colombia in June 2019. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 111 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: integrity and cryptanalysis; digital signature and MAC; software and systems security; blockchain and cryptocurrency; post quantum cryptography; public key and commitment; theory of cryptographic implementations; and privacy preserving techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, CSCML 2019, held in Beer-Sheva, Israel, in June 2019. The 18 full and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They deal with the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cyber security, cryptography and machine learning systems and networks, and conceptually innovative topics in these research areas.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Science of Cyber Security, SciSec 2018, held in Beijing, China, in August 2018. The 11 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers focus on science of security; cybersecurity dynamics; attacks and defenses; network security; security metrics and measurements; and performance enhancements.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2013, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2013. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers cover the topics of Boolean function and block cipher, sequence and stream cipher, applications: systems and theory, computational number theory, public key cryptography, has function, side-channel and leakage, and application and system security.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2012, held in Beijing, China, in November 2012. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers cover the topics of side channel attacks, extractor and secret sharing, public key cryptography, block ciphers, stream ciphers, new constructions and protocols.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2012, held in Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2012. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers are focusing on all technical and practical aspects of symmetric cipher, secure hardware/public key crypto application, cryptographic protocols/digital forensics, network security, and trust management/database security.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2011, held in Beijing, China, in November/December 2011. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers present research advances in the areas of information security, cryptology, and their applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Symposium on Computer Security, ESORICS 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012. The 50 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 papers. The articles are organized in topical sections on security and data protection in real systems; formal models for cryptography and access control; security and privacy in mobile and wireless networks; counteracting man-in-the-middle attacks; network security; users privacy and anonymity; location privacy; voting protocols and anonymous communication; private computation in cloud systems; formal security models; identity based encryption and group signature; authentication; encryption key and password security; malware and phishing; and software security.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Trusted Systems, INTRUST 2011, held in Beijing, China, in November 2011. The 21 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions for inclusion in the book. Except these contributed papers the program of INTRUST also consisted of a workshop titled Asian Lounge on Trust, Security and Privacy consisting of six keynote speeches. The papers are organized in topical sections on trusted services, mobile trusted systems, security analysis, cryptographic aspects, trusted networks, implementation, and direct anonymous attestation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Trusted Systems, held in Beijing, China, in December 2010.The 23 contributed papers presented together with nine invited talks from a workshop, titled "Asian Lounge on Trust, Security and Privacy" were carefully selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in seven topical sections on implentation technology, security analysis, cryptographic aspects, mobile trusted systems, hardware security, attestation, and software protection.

The 10th International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2009) was held in Busan, Korea during August 25-27, 2009. The workshop was hosted by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC), supported by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA), sponsored by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MoPAS) and the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), financially sponsored by the ST. Ltd. The aim of the workshop was to serve as a forum for presenting new research and experimental results in the area of information security applications from academic communities as well as from industry. The workshop program covered a wide range of security aspects, from cryptography to systems and network security and experimental work as well. It was our great pleasure and honor to serve as the Program Committee Co-chairs of WISA2009. This year, too, the proceedings of the workshop were published in the LNCS series of Springer. The WISA 2009 Program Committee received 79 papers form 16 countries. This year the submissions were exceptionally strong, and the committee accepted 27 papers for the full paper presentation track. All the papers were carefully evaluated through blind peer-review by at least three members of the Program Comm- tee. We would like to say that acceptance is a great achievement since the selection process was highly competitive, and many good papers were not accepted.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security Conference, ISC 2009, held in Pisa, Italy, September 7-9, 2009.

The 29 revised full papers and 9 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis techniques, hash functions, database security and biometrics, algebraic attacks and proxy re-encryption, distributed system security, identity management and authentication, applied cryptography, access control, MAC and nonces, and P2P and Web services.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2008, held in Beijing, China, in December 2008.

The 28 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital signature and signcryption schemes, privacy and anonymity, message authentication code and hash function, secure protocols, symmetric cryptography, certificateless cryptography, hardware implementation and side channel attack, wireless network security, public key and identity based cryptography, access control and network security, as well as trusted computing and applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2008, held in Jeju Island, Korea, during September 23-25, 2008.

The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 161 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart card and secure hardware, wireless and sensor network security, public key crypto applications, privacy and anonymity, n/w security and intrusion detection, as well as application security and trust management.

ACNS2008, the6thInternationalConferenceonAppliedCryptographyandN- work Security, was held in New York, New York, June 3-6, 2008, at Columbia University. ACNS 2008 was organized in cooperation with the International - sociation for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. The General Chairs of the conference were - gelos Keromytis and Moti Yung. The conference received 131 submissions, of which the Program Committee, chairedbyStevenBellovinandRosarioGennaro, selected 30 for presentation at the conference. The Best Student Paper Award was given to Liang Xie and Hui Song for their paper "On the E?ectiveness of Internal Patch Dissemination Against File-Sharing Worms" (co-authored with Sencun Zhu). These proceedings consist of revised versions of the presented papers. The revisions werenot reviewed.The authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their papers. Thereweremany submissionsof goodquality, and consequentlythe selection process was challenging and very competitive. Indeed, a number of good papers were not accepted due to lack of space in the program. The main considerations in selecting the program were conceptual and technical innovation and quality of presentation. As re?ected in the Call for Papers, an attempt was made to solicit and publish papers suggesting novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2007, held in Jeju Island, Korea, August 27-29, 2007.

The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 95 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Public Key Crypto Applications, Biometrics/Information Hiding, Secure Hardware, Secure Systems, Wireless and Mobile Security, Application Security/Secure Systems, Access Control/DB Security, Smart Cards/Secure Systems and Anonymity and P2P Security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cryptology in India, INDOCRYPT 2007, held in Chennai, India, in December 2007.

The 22 revised full papers and 11 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on hashing, elliptic curve, cryptoanalysis, information theoretic security, elliptic curve cryptography, signature, side channel attack, symmetric cryptosystem, asymmetric cryptosystem, and short papers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2007, held in Zhuhai, China, June 2007. The 31 revised full papers cover signature schemes, computer and network security, cryptanalysis, group-oriented security, cryptographic protocols, anonymous authentication, identity-based cryptography, and security in wireless, ad-hoc, and peer-to-peer networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea in August 2006.

The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 146 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on public key crypto applications and virus protection, cyber indication and intrusion detection, biometrics and security trust management, secure software and systems, smart cards and secure hardware, mobile security, DRM, information hiding, ubiquitous computing security, P2P security, pre-authentication for fast handoff in wireless mesh networks including mobile APs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second SKLOIS Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2006, held in Beijing, China in November/December 2006. The 23 revised full papers cover digital signature schemes, sequences and stream ciphers, symmetric-key cryptography, cryptographic schemes, network security, access control, computer and applications security, as well as Web and media security.

Here are the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Security and Cryptology for Networks, SCN 2006. The book offers 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstract of an invited talk. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed systems security, signature schemes variants, block cipher analysis, anonymity and e-commerce, public key encryption and key exchange, secret sharing, symmetric key cryptanalisis and randomness, applied authentication, and more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2006, held in Singapore in June 2006. Book presents 33 revised full papers, organized in topical sections on intrusion detection and avoidance, cryptographic applications, DoS attacks and countermeasures, key management, cryptanalysis, security of limited devices, cryptography, authentication and Web security, ad-hoc and sensor network security, cryptographic constructions, and security and privacy.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Rights Management: Technology, Issues, Challenges and Systems, DRMTICS 2005, held in Sydney, Australia, in October/November 2005. Presents 26 carefully reviewed full papers organized in topical sections on assurance and authentication issues, legal and related issues, expressing rights and management, watermarking, software issues, fingerprinting and image authentication, supporting cryptographic technology, P2P issues, implementations and architectures.