This study is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation at the Economics Department of the University of Munich. I want to take the opportunity to express my gratitude to some people who have helped me in my work. My greatest thanks go to the supervisor of this dissertation, Professor Claude Billinger. Bis ideas have formed the basis of my work. Be permanently sup ported it with a host of ideas, criticism and encouragement. Furthermore, he provided a stimulating research environment at SEMECON. This study would not have been possible in this form without the help of my present and former...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2015, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in December 2015.

The 12 full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover topics of interest such as internet of things and privacy; password-based authentication; attacks and malicious code; security modeling and verification; secure multi-party computation; and cryptography and VPNs.