This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
theTheory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa AFRICACRYPT 2016 held in Fes
Morooco in April 2016. The 18papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and
selected from 65submissions. The aim of Africacrypt 2016 is to provide an international
forumfor practitioners and researchers from industry academia and government fromall over the
world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of cryptography. Topicsof interest are such as
lattices elliptic curves secret-key cryptanalysis efficient implementations secure protocols
and public-key cryptography.
