The Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security elucidates the theory and techniques of cryptography and illustrates how to establish and maintain security under the framework of financial cryptography. It applies various cryptographic techniques to auctions, electronic voting, micropayment systems, digital rights, financial portfolios, routing

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2020, held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, in February 2020. The 34 revised full papers and 2 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 162 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: attacks; consensus; cryptoeconomics; layer 2; secure computation; privacy; crypto foundations; empirical studies; and smart contracts.

Financial Cryptography 2000 marked the fourth time the technical, business, legal, and political communities from around the world joined together on the smallislandofAnguilla,BritishWestIndiestodiscussanddiscovernewadvances in securing electronic ?nancial transactions. The conference, sponsored by the International Financial Cryptography Association, was held on February 20– 24, 2000. The General Chair, Don Beaver, oversaw the local organization and registration. The program committee considered 68 submissions of which 21 papers were accepted. Each submitted paper was reviewed by a minimum of three referees. These proceedings contain revised versions of the 21 accepted papers. Revisions were not checked and the authors bear full responsibility for the content of their papers. This year’s program also included two invited lectures, two panel sessions, and a rump session. The invited talks were given by Kevin McCurley prese- ing “In the Search of the Killer App” and Pam Samuelson presenting “Towards a More Sensible Way of Regulating the Circumvention of Technical Protection Systems”. For the panel sessions, Barbara Fox and Brian LaMacchia mod- ated “Public-Key Infrastructure: PKIX, Signed XML, or Something Else” and Moti Yung moderated “Payment Systems: The Next Generation”. Stuart Haber organized the informal rump session of short presentations. This was the ?rst year that the conference accepted submissions electro- cally as well as by postal mail. Many thanks to George Davida, the electronic submissions chair, for maintaining the electronic submissions server. A majority of the authors preferred electronic submissions with 65 of the 68 submissions provided electronically.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2018, held in Nieuwport, Curaçao, in February/ March 2018. The 27 revised full papers and 2 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 110 submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Applied Cryptography, Mobile Systems Security and Privacy, Risk Assessment and Management, Social Networks Security and Privacy and much more.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Financial Cryptography, FC 2004, held in Key West, FL, USA, in February 2004. The 17 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 4 invited talks and 4 panel statements were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on loyalty and micropayment systems, user authentication, e-voting, auctions and lotteries, game theoretic and cryptographic tools, and mix networks and anonymous communications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 7th International Conference on Financial Cryptography, FC 2003, held in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, in January 2003. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 5 panel position papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on micropayment and e-cash; security, anonymity, and privacy; attacks; fair exchange; auctions; and cryptographic tools and primitives.

The Sixth International Financial Cryptography Conference was held during March 11-14, 2002, in Southampton, Bermuda. As is customary at FC, these proceedings represent "final" versions of the papers presented, revised to take into account comments and discussions from the conference. Submissions to the conference were strong, with 74 papers submitted and 19 accepted for presentation and publication. (Regrettably, three of the submit ted papers had to be summarily rejected after it was discovered that they had been improperly submitted in parallel to other conferences.) The small program committee worked very hard under a tight schedule (working through Christmas day) to select the program. No program chair could ask for a better committee; my thanks to everyone for their hard work and dedication. In addition to the refereed papers, the program included a welcome from the Minister of Telecommunications and e-Commerce, Renee Webb, a keynote address by Nigel Hickson, and a panel on privacy tradeoffs cheiired by Rebecca Wright (with panelists Ian Goldberg, Ron Rivest, and Graham Wood). The traditional Tuesday evening "rump session" was skillfully officiated by Markus Jakobsson. My job as program chair was made much, much easier by the excellent work of our general chair, Nicko van Someren, who performed the miracle of hiding from me any evidence of the innumerable logistical nightmares associated with conducting this conference. I have no idea how he did it, but it must have involved many sleepless nights.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA'96, held in Lyngby, Denmark, in August 1996. The volume presents revised full versions of 45 carefully selected contributed papers together with 31 invited presentations. The papers address all current aspects of applied parallel computing relevant for industrial computations. The invited papers review the most important numerical algorithms and scientific applications on several types of parallel machines.

The two-volume set LNCS 13950 and 13951 constitutes revised selected papers from the 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2023, which was held from May 1-5, 2023, in Bol, Croatia. The 39 full and 2 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 182 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: Consensus; cryptographic protocols; decentralized finance; Part II: Proof of X; Layer 2; attack techniques, defenses, and attack case studies; empirical studies and more decentralized finance; game theory and protocols.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2005, held in Roseau, The Commonwealth Of Dominica, in February/March 2005. The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of one invited talk and 2 panel statements were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on threat and attacks, digital signing methods, privacy, hardware oriented mechanisms, supporting financial transactions, systems, applications, and experiences, message authentication, exchanges and contracts, auctions and voting, and user authentication.