This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2009, held in Palo Alto, CA, USA, in August 2009. The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on signature security, curves, pairing computation, non-interactive zero-knowledge systems and applications, group signatures, and protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2009, held in Palo Alto, CA, USA, in August 2009. The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on signature security, curves, pairing computation, non-interactive zero-knowledge systems and applications, group signatures, and protocols.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2010, held in Yamanaka Hot Spring, Japan, in December 2010. The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on: efficient software implementation; digital signatures; cryptographic protocols; key agreement; applications - code generation, time-released encryption, and cloud computing; point encoding and pairing-friendly curves; ID-based encryption schemes; and efficient hardware, FPGAs, and algorithms.

This book is devoted to efficient pairing computations and implementations, useful tools for cryptographers working on topics like identity-based cryptography and the simplification of existing protocols like signature schemes. As well as exploring the basic mathematical background of finite fields and elliptic curves, Guide to Pairing-Based Cryptography offers an overview of the most recent developments in optimizations for pairing implementation. Each chapter includes a presentation of the problem it discusses, the mathematical formulation, a discussion of implementation issues, solutions accompanied by code or pseudocode, several numerical results, and references to further reading and notes. Intended as a self-contained handbook, this book is an invaluable resource for computer scientists, applied mathematicians and security professionals interested in cryptography.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2013, held in Beijing, China, in November 2013. The 14 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. As in previous years, the focus of Pairing 2013 is on all aspects of pairing-based cryptography, including: cryptographic primitives and protocols, mathematical foundations, software and hardware implementation, as well as applied security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pairing-Based Cryptography, Pairing 2012, held in Cologne, Germany, in May 2012. The 17 full papers for presentation at the academic track and 3 full papers for presentation at the industrial track were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. These papers are presented together with 6 invited talks. The contributions are organized in topical sections on: algorithms for pairing computation, security models for encryption, functional encryption, implementations in hardware and software, industry track, properties of pairings, and signature schemes and applications.