This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2018, held in Naples, Italy, in September/October 2018.

The 26 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: privacy; Internet misbehavior and protection; malware; symmetric key cryptography; signatures; cryptanalysis; cryptographic primitives; and cryptographic protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2014, held in Hong Kong, China, in October 2014. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on public-key encryption, authentication, symmetric key cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs and arguments, outsourced and multi-party computations, implementation, information leakage, firewall and forensics, Web security, and android security.

The need for information privacy and security continues to grow and gets increasingly recognized. In this regard, Privacy-preserving Attribute-based Credentials (Privacy-ABCs) are elegant techniques to provide secure yet privacy-respecting access control. This book addresses the federation and interchangeability of Privacy-ABC technologies. It defines a common, unified architecture for Privacy-ABC systems that allows their respective features to be compared and combined Further, this book presents open reference implementations of selected Privacy-ABC systems and explains how to deploy them in actual production pilots, allowing provably accredited members of restricted communities to provide anonymous feedback on their community or its members. To date, credentials such as digitally signed pieces of personal information or other information used to authenticate or identify a user have not been designed to respect the users’ privacy. They inevitably reveal the identity of the holder even though the application at hand often needs much less information, e.g. only the confirmation that the holder is a teenager or is eligible for social benefits. In contrast, Privacy-ABCs allow their holders to reveal only their minimal information required by the applications, without giving away their full identity information. Privacy-ABCs thus facilitate the implementation of a trustworthy and at the same time privacy-respecting digital society.

The ABC4Trust project as a multidisciplinary and European project, gives a technological response to questions linked to data protection.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop on Open Problems in Network Security, iNetSec 2015, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in October 2015. iNetSec is the main workshop of the IFIP working group WG 11.4; its objective is to present and discuss open problems and new research directions on all aspects related to network security. The 9 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: network security; intrusion detection; anonymous communication; and cryptography. 

This book contains a range of keynote papers and submitted papers presented at the 10th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2015. The 14 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from a total of 43 submissions and were subject to a two-step review process. In addition, the volume contains 4 invited keynote papers. The papers cover a wide range of topics: cloud computing, privacy-enhancing technologies, accountability, measuring privacy and understanding risks, the future of privacy and data protection regulation, the US privacy perspective, privacy and security, the PRISMS Decision System, engineering privacy, cryptography, surveillance, identity management, the European General Data Protection Regulation framework, communicating privacy issues to the general population, smart technologies, technology users'' privacy preferences, sensitive applications, collaboration betweenhumans and machines, and privacy and ethics.

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:

This book documents the R&D outcome of the PRIME Project, an R&D project partially funded by the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme and the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science.  PRIME has focused on privacy-enhancing identity management techniques and systems to support users’ sovereignty over their personal privacy and enterprises’ privacy-compliant data processing. During the course of four years, the project has involved over a hundred researchers and professionals from 22 major European academic and industrial organizations conducting R&D work in areas relevant to digital privacy. The book presents 28 detailed chapters organized in five parts: Introductory summary, legal, social, and economic aspects, realization of privacy-enhancing user-centric identity management, exploitation of PRIME results for applications, conclusions drawn and an outlook on future work.

As the first coherent presentation of the topic, this book will serve as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for anybody working on digital privacy.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2018, held in Naples, Italy, in September/October 2018.

The 26 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: privacy; Internet misbehavior and protection; malware; symmetric key cryptography; signatures; cryptanalysis; cryptographic primitives; and cryptographic protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2014, held in Hong Kong, China, in October 2014. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on public-key encryption, authentication, symmetric key cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs and arguments, outsourced and multi-party computations, implementation, information leakage, firewall and forensics, Web security, and android security.

The need for information privacy and security continues to grow and gets increasingly recognized. In this regard, Privacy-preserving Attribute-based Credentials (Privacy-ABCs) are elegant techniques to provide secure yet privacy-respecting access control. This book addresses the federation and interchangeability of Privacy-ABC technologies. It defines a common, unified architecture for Privacy-ABC systems that allows their respective features to be compared and combined Further, this book presents open reference implementations of selected Privacy-ABC systems and explains how to deploy them in actual production pilots, allowing provably accredited members of restricted communities to provide anonymous feedback on their community or its members. To date, credentials such as digitally signed pieces of personal information or other information used to authenticate or identify a user have not been designed to respect the users’ privacy. They inevitably reveal the identity of the holder even though the application at hand often needs much less information, e.g. only the confirmation that the holder is a teenager or is eligible for social benefits. In contrast, Privacy-ABCs allow their holders to reveal only their minimal information required by the applications, without giving away their full identity information. Privacy-ABCs thus facilitate the implementation of a trustworthy and at the same time privacy-respecting digital society.

The ABC4Trust project as a multidisciplinary and European project, gives a technological response to questions linked to data protection.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop on Open Problems in Network Security, iNetSec 2015, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in October 2015. iNetSec is the main workshop of the IFIP working group WG 11.4; its objective is to present and discuss open problems and new research directions on all aspects related to network security. The 9 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: network security; intrusion detection; anonymous communication; and cryptography. 

This book contains a range of keynote papers and submitted papers presented at the 10th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/SIG 9.2.2 International Summer School, held in Edinburgh, UK, in August 2015. The 14 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from a total of 43 submissions and were subject to a two-step review process. In addition, the volume contains 4 invited keynote papers. The papers cover a wide range of topics: cloud computing, privacy-enhancing technologies, accountability, measuring privacy and understanding risks, the future of privacy and data protection regulation, the US privacy perspective, privacy and security, the PRISMS Decision System, engineering privacy, cryptography, surveillance, identity management, the European General Data Protection Regulation framework, communicating privacy issues to the general population, smart technologies, technology users'' privacy preferences, sensitive applications, collaboration betweenhumans and machines, and privacy and ethics.

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:

This book documents the R&D outcome of the PRIME Project, an R&D project partially funded by the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme and the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science.  PRIME has focused on privacy-enhancing identity management techniques and systems to support users’ sovereignty over their personal privacy and enterprises’ privacy-compliant data processing. During the course of four years, the project has involved over a hundred researchers and professionals from 22 major European academic and industrial organizations conducting R&D work in areas relevant to digital privacy. The book presents 28 detailed chapters organized in five parts: Introductory summary, legal, social, and economic aspects, realization of privacy-enhancing user-centric identity management, exploitation of PRIME results for applications, conclusions drawn and an outlook on future work.

As the first coherent presentation of the topic, this book will serve as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for anybody working on digital privacy.