This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2010, held in Yamanaka Hot Spring, Japan, in December 2010.The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on: efficient software implementation; digital signatures; cryptographic protocols; key agreement; applications - code generation, time-released encryption, and cloud computing; point encoding and pairing-friendly curves; ID-based encryption schemes; and efficient hardware,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2015, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in November 2015.

The 19 full papers and 7 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on fundamental, protocol, authenticated encryption and key exchange, encryption and identification, privacy and cloud, leakage-resilient cryptography and lattice cryptography, signature and broadcast encryption.