This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Security
in Computing and Communications SSCC 2017 held in Manipal India in September 2017. The 21
revised full papers presented together with 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 84 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as cryptosystems algorithms
primitives security and privacy in networked systems system and network security
steganography visual cryptography image forensics applications security.