The book in front of you contains the proceedings of SAC 2008 the 15th - nual Workshop on
Selected Areas in Cryptography. SAC 2008 took place during August 14 15 at Mount Allison
University Sackville New Brunswick Canada. This was the ?rst time that SAC was hosted in New
Brunswick and the second time in an Atlantic Canadian province. Previous SAC workshops were
held at Queen s University in Kingston (1994 1996 1998 1999 and 2005) at Carleton
University in Ottawa (1995 1997 2003) at the University of Waterloo (2000 2004) at the
Fields Institute in Toronto (2001) at Memorial University of N- foundland at St. John s (2002)
at Concordia University in Montreal (2006) and at the University of Ottawa (2007). The intent
ofthe workshopseriesis to provide a relaxedatmospherein which researchers in cryptography can
present and discuss new work on selected areas of current interest. The SAC workshop series has
?rmly established itself as an international forum for intellectual exchange in cryptological
research. Theresponsibilityforchoosingthe venueofeachSACworkshopandappoi-
ingtheCo-chairslieswiththeSACOrganizingBoard.TheCo-chairsthenchoose the Program Committee in
consultation with the Board. Hence we would like to expressour gratitudeto the SAC
OrganizingBoardfor giving usthe mandate to organize SAC 2008 and for their invaluable feedback
while assembling the Program Committee.
