This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2009, held in Irvine, CA, USA, in March 2009. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on number theory, applications and protocols, multi-party protocols, identity-based encryption, signatures, encryption, new cryptosystems and optimizations, as well as group signatures and anonymous credentials.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2010, held in Paris, France, in May 2010. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on encryption; cryptanalysis; protocols; network coding; tools; elliptic curves; lossy trapdoor functions; discrete logarithm; and signatures.

The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 14601-14604 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2024, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, April 15-17, 2024. The 54 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They focus on all aspects of signatures; attacks; commitments; multiparty computation; zero knowledge proofs; theoretical foundations; isogenies and applications; lattices and applications; Diffie Hellman and applications; encryption; homomorphic encryption; and implementation.

The two-volume set LNCS 10174 and 10175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in March 2017. The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as Cryptanalysis, Protocols, Encrpytion Schemes, Leakage-Resilient and Non-Malleable Codes, Number Theory and Diffie-Hellman, Encryption with Access Control, Special Signatures, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Real-World Schemes, Multiparty Computation and Primitives.

The two-volume set LNCS 12110 and 12111 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2020, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2020. The 44 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 180 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as: functional encryption; identity-based encryption; obfuscation and applications; encryption schemes; secure channels; basic primitives with special properties; proofs and arguments; lattice-based cryptography; isogeny-based cryptography; multiparty protocols; secure computation and related primitives; post-quantum primitives; and privacy-preserving schemes.

The two-volume proceedings set LNCS 13177 and 13178 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2022, which took place virtually during March 7-11, 2022. The conference was originally planned to take place in Yokohama, Japan, but had to change to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 40 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. They focus on all aspects of public-key cryptography, covering cryptanalysis; MPC and secret sharing; cryptographic protocols; tools; SNARKs and NIZKs; key exchange; theory; encryption; and signatures.

The two-volume set LNCS 9614 and 9615 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in March 2016. The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: CCA security, functional encryption, identity-based encryption, signatures, cryptanalysis, leakage-resilient and circularly secure encryption, protocols, and primitives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2013, held in Nara, Japan, in February/March 2013. The 28 papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: homomorphic encryption, primitives, functional encryption/signatures, RSA, IBE and IPE, key exchange, signature schemes, encryption, and protocols.

The two-volume proceedings set LNCS 13940 and 13941 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2023, which took place in March 2023 in Atlanta, GA, USA. The 49 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. They focus on all aspects of public-key cryptography, covering Post-Quantum Cryptography, Key Exchange and Messaging, Encryption, Homomorphic Cryptography and other topics.

The two-volume proceedings set LNCS 12710 and 12711 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2021, which was held online during May 10-13, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Edinburgh, UK, but had to change to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 52 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 156 submissions. They focus on all aspects of public-key cryptography, covering theory, implementations and applications. This year, post-quantum cryptography, PQC constructions and cryptanalysis received special attention.