This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings fo the 9th International Conference
on Information Theoretic Security  ICITS 2016  held in Tacoma  WA  USA  in August 2016. The 14
full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions.
They are organized around the following topics: secret sharing  quantum cryptography  visual
cryptography  cryptographic protocols  entropy  extractors and privacy.