This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2013, held in Okinawa, Japan, in November 2013. The 20 revised selected papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: software and system security, cryptanalysis, privacy and cloud computing, public key cryptosystems, and security protocols.

A comprehensive evaluation of information security analysis spanning the intersection of cryptanalysis and side-channel analysis

• Written by authors known within the academic cryptography community, this book presents the latest developments in current research
• Unique in its combination of both algorithmic-level design and hardware-level implementation; this all-round approach - algorithm to implementation - covers security from start to completion
• Deals with AES (Advanced Encryption standard), one of the most used symmetric-key ciphers, which helps the reader...