This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on
Cryptology and Network Security CANS 2016 held in Milan Italy in November 2016.The 30 full
papers presented together with 18 short papers and 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 116 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:
cryptanalysis of symmetric key side channel attacks and implementation lattice-based
cryptography virtual private network signatures and hash multi party computation symmetric
cryptography and authentication system security functional and homomorphic encryption
information theoretic security malware and attacks multi party computation and functional
encryption and network security privacy and authentication.
