This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on
Information and Communications Security ICICS 2018 held in Lille France in October 2018.
The 39 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully selected from 202
submissions. The papers are organized in topics on blockchain technology malware botnet and
network security real-world cryptography encrypted computing privacy protection signature
schemes attack analysis and detection searchable encryption and identity-based cryptography
verifiable storage and computing applied cryptography supporting techniques formal analysis
and cryptanalysis attack detection and security management.