This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cryptology in
Africa AFRICACRYPT 2009 held in Gammarth Tunisia on June 21-25 2009. The 25 papers
presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 70
submissions. The topics covered are hash functions block ciphers asymmetric encryption
digital signatures asymmetric encryption and anonymity key agreement protocols cryptographic
protocols efficient implementations and implementation attacks.