TheseventhinternationalconferenceonCryptologyandNetworkSecurity(CANS 2008)washeld at HKU Town Center, Hong Kong, China, during December 2-4, 2008. The conference was organized by the Department of Computer Science, theUniversityofHongKong, andwasfullysupportedbytheCenterforInfor- tion Security and Cryptography at the University of Hong Kong, the Cyberport Institute of Hong Kong at the University of Hong Kong and the Department of Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong. The goal of CANS is to promote research on all aspects of network security, as well as to build a bridge...

The third Financial Cryptography conference was held in February 1999, once again at Anguilla in the British West Indies. The number of attendees continues to increase from year to year, as do the number and quality of the technical submissions. The Program Committee did a great job selecting the technical program. I thank them for all of their eo rt s. We were helped by a number of outside reviewers, including Mart n Abadi, Gerrit Bleumer, Drew Dean, Anand Desai, Mariusz Jakubowski, Andrew Odlyzko, David Pointcheval, Guillaume Poupard, Zul kar Ramzan, Aleta Ricciardi, Dan Simon, Jessica...