This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Cryptology in India INDOCRYPT 2016 held in Kolkata India in December 2016. The 23 revised
full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions.
The focus of the conference includes works on Public-Key Cryptography Cryptographic Protocols
Side-Channel Attacks Implementation of Cryptographic Schemes Functional Encryption
Symmetric-Key Cryptanalysis Foundations and New Cryptographic Constructions.