This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2005, held in Chennai, India in December 2005.

The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 237 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algebra and number theory, multiparty computation, zero knowledge and secret sharing, information and quantum theory, privacy and anonymity, cryptanalytic techniques, stream cipher cryptanalysis, block ciphers and hash functions, bilinear maps, key agreement, provable security, and digital signatures.