This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Cryptology and Network Security CANS 2009 held in Kanazawa Japan in December 2009. The 32
revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and
selected from 109 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptographic
protocols and schemes cryptanalysis wireless and sensor security network security privacy
and anonymity functional and searchable encryption authentication block cipher design and
algebraic and number-theoretic schemes.
