This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2008, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on structures in finite fields, efficient finite field arithmetic, efficient implementation and architectures, classification and construction of mappings over finite fields, and codes and cryptography.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2010, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2010. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on efficient finite field arithmetic, pseudo-random numbers and sequences, Boolean functions, functions, Equations and modular multiplication, finite field arithmetic for pairing based cryptography, and finite field, cryptography and coding.

Text for a one-semester course at the advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level, or reference for algebraists and mathematicians interested in algebra, algebraic geometry, and number theory, examines counting or estimating numbers of solutions of equations in finite fields concentrating on top

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2007, held in Madrid, Spain in June 2007. It covers structures in finite fields, efficient implementation and architectures, efficient finite field arithmetic, classification and construction of mappings over finite fields, curve algebra, cryptography, codes, and discrete structures.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2022, held in Chengdu, China, in August – September 2022. The 19 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: structures in finite fields; efficient finite field arithmetic; coding theory; cryptography; sequences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2018, held in Bergen, Norway, in June 2018. The 14 revised full papers and six invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited talks; elliptic curves; hardware implementations; arithmetic and applications of finite fields and cryptography.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2016, held in Ghent, Belgium, in July 2016. The 14 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited talks; elliptic curves; applications; irreducible polynomials; applications to cryptography; Boolean functions; cryptography; cryptography and Boolean functions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2020, held in Rennes, France in July 2020. Due to the COVID-19, the workshop was held online. The 12 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited talks, Finite Field Arithmetic, Coding Theory, Network Security and much more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2012, held in Bochum, Germany, in July 2012. The 13 revised full papers and 4 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on coding theory and code-based cryptography, Boolean functions, finite field arithmetic, equations and functions, and polynomial factorization and permutation polynomial.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2014, held in Gebze, Turkey, in September 2014. The 9 revised full papers and 43 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. This workshop is a forum of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and physicists performing research on finite field arithmetic, interested in communicating the advances in the theory, applications, and implementations of finite fields. The workshop will help to bridge the gap between the mathematical theory of finite fields and their hardware/software implementations and technical applications.