This book contains revised versions of all the papers presented at the 16th International
Conference on Cryptology and Network Security CANS 2017 held in Hong Kong China in November
December 2017. The 20 full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The full papers are organized in the following
topical sections: foundation of applied cryptography processing encrypted data predicate
encryption credentials and authentication web security Bitcoin and blockchain embedded
system security anonymous and virtual private networks and wireless and physical layer
security.
