This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Cryptology in India INDOCRYPT 2007 held in Chennai India in December 2007. The papers and
three invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in
topical sections on hashing elliptic curve cryptoanalysis information theoretic security
elliptic curve cryptography signature side channel attack symmetric cryptosystem asymmetric
cryptosystem and short papers.