This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Principles of
Security and Trust POST 2016 which took place in Eindhoven The Netherlands in April 2016
held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ETAPS 2016.
The 12 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35
submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information flow models and
applications protocols.