This book contains revised selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Selected
Areas in Cryptography SAC 2016 held in St. John's NL Canada in August 2016. The 28 full
papers and 2 invited papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
100 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: side channels and fault
attacks design and implementation of symmetric cryptography efficient symmetric primitives
cryptanalysis of symmetric primitives MACs and PRNGs lattice-based cryptography and
cryptanalysis of asymmetric primitives.