This book
constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the
Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2016,
held in Fes, Morooco, in April 2016.



The 18
papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65
submissions. The aim of Africacrypt 2016 is to provide an international forum
for practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government from
all over the world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of cryptography. Topics
of interest are such as lattices; elliptic curves; secret-key cryptanalysis;
efficient implementations; secure protocols; and public-key cryptography.