This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SCN 2012, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2012.

The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cryptography from lattices; signature schemes; encryption schemes; efficient two-party and multi-party computation; security in the UC framework; cryptanalysis; efficient constructions; and protocols and combiners.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SCN 2012, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2012.

The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cryptography from lattices; signature schemes; encryption schemes; efficient two-party and multi-party computation; security in the UC framework; cryptanalysis; efficient constructions; and protocols and combiners.