Download or read book Progress in Cryptology – AFRICACRYPT 2016 written by David Pointcheval and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2016, held in Fes, Morooco, in April 2016. The 18 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The aim of Africacrypt 2016 is to provide an international forum for practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government from all over the world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of cryptography. Topics of interest are such as lattices; elliptic curves; secret-key cryptanalysis; efficient implementations; secure protocols; and public-key cryptography.