This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2020, held in Fukui, Japan, in September 2020.*

The 15 regular papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: symmetric-key cryptography, malicious activity detection, multiparty computation, post quantum cryptography, privacy, pairing-based cryptography, and machine learning.

* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2020, held in Fukui, Japan, in September 2020.*

The 15 regular papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: symmetric-key cryptography, malicious activity detection, multiparty computation, post quantum cryptography, privacy, pairing-based cryptography, and machine learning.

* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2020, held in Fukui, Japan, in September 2020.*

The 15 regular papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: symmetric-key cryptography, malicious activity detection, multiparty computation, post quantum cryptography, privacy, pairing-based cryptography, and machine learning.

* The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.