Abstract

The International Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography Engineering (SPACE) is an annual event devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering. The conferences started in 2011, and SPACE 2018 is the eighth in this series. SPACE 2018 is being organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), in cooperation with International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) from 15 to 19 December, 2018. The program co-chairs for SPACE 2018 are Dr. Anupam Chattopadhyay (NTU Singapore), Dr. Chester Rebeiro (IIT Madras, India), and Dr. Yuval Yarom (The University of Adelaide and Data61, Australia). The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as a Springer LNCS volume. The LNCS proceedings of the previous five years are available at SPACE 2017, SPACE 2016, SPACE 2015, SPACE 2014, SPACE 2013. The best contributions to SPACE 2018 will be selected for submission to regular issues of the Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HASS).