Selected Areas in Cryptography: 15th International Workshop, SAC 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, August 14-15, Revised Selected Papers

This volume constitutes the selected papers of the 15th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2008, held in Sackeville, New Brunswick, Canada, in August 14-15, 2008.

From a total of 99 technical papers, 27 papers were accepted for presentation at the workshop. They cover the following topics: elliptic and hyperelliptic arithmetic, block ciphers, hash functions, mathematical aspects of applied cryptography, stream ciphers cryptanalysis, cryptography with algebraic curves, curve-based primitives in hardware.