Preface

摘要

ASIACRYPT 2018, the 24th Annual International Conference on Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, was held in Brisbane, Australia, during December 2-6, 2018. The conference focused on all technical aspects of cryptology, and was sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Asiacrypt 2018 received a total of 234 submissions from all over the world. The Program Committee selected 65 papers for publication in the proceedings of this conference. The review process was made by the usual double-blind peer review by the Program Committee, which consisted of 47 leading experts of the field. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers and five reviewers were assigned to submissions co-authored by Program Committee members. This year, the conference operated a two-round review system with rebuttal phase. In the first-round review the Program Committee selected the 145 submissions that were considered of value for proceeding to the second round. In the second-round phase the Program Committee further reviewed the submissions by taking into account their rebuttal letter from the authors. The selection process was assisted by a total of 347 external reviewers. These three-volume proceedings contain the revised versions of the papers that were selected. The revised versions were not reviewed again and the authors are responsible for their contents.