International Association
for Cryptologic Research

SAC 2011 was held August 11-12, 2011 in the Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. There were 72 participants from 18 countries. Moreover, the conference had received 92 submissions out of which 23 were accepted. The reception took place the night before the conference started and the banquet dinner, which was held on the first night of the conference, was located in The Trillium Ballroom of the Atlantis Pavilions, a spectacular site on the waterfront of Lake Ontario.

A digital version of the pre-proceedings was provided to the attendees and was also available online on the website of the conference. Revised versions of the accepted papers, along with two invited papers, are going to appear in the proceedings of the conference published by Springer. Kristin Lauter from Microsoft Research and Alfred Menezes from University of Waterloo delivered two invited talks on the topics of `Cryptographic Techniques for Securing the Cloud' and `Another Look at Tightness', respectively.

The co-chairs were Ali Miri and Serge Vaudenay, and the publicity and publication chair was Atefeh Mashatan who wish to gratefully acknowledge the sponsors of SAC 2011, including the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, and Science and the Department of Computer Science Ryerson University, Fields Institute, and Certicom, for their enthusiastic and generous support.