International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The Conference on the Selected Areas in Cryptography in 2012 (SAC 2012) was held at University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada on August 15-16, 2012.

SAC 2012 received 87 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers. 24 papers were selected for publication in the proceedings and acceptance rate was 24/87=27.6%. Two invited talks were given by Vincent Rijmen (KU Leuven) and Ian Goldberg (University of Waterloo) on the topics "Extracts from the SHA-3 competition" and "Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Internet", respectively.

A digital version of the pre-proceedings was provided to the 55 attendees. Revised versions of the accepted papers were published in the LNCS 7707 by Springer. Most presentation slides for the technical sessions including the invited talks can be found on the conference website at http://www.uwindsor.ca/sac2012/.

The program co-chairs were Lars R. Knudsen and Huapeng Wu, who wish to thank the sponsors of SAC 2012, including the Vice President (Research) Office, Faculty of Engineering, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor for their enthusiastic and generous support.