The 6th Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2008)
was held in Amalfi, Italy, on September 10–12, 2008. The first four editions of
the conference where held in Amalfi, while, two years ago, the fifth edition was
held in the nearby Maiori. This year we moved back to the traditional location.
Security and privacy are increasing concerns in computer networks such as
the Internet. The availability of fast, reliable, and cheap electronic communication
offers the opportunity to perform, electronically and in a distributed way,
a wide range of transactions of a most diverse nature. The conference brought
together researchers in the fields of cryptography and security in communication
networks with the goal of fostering cooperation and exchange of ideas. The main
topics of the conference this year included anonymity, implementations, authentication,
symmetric-key cryptography, complexity-based cryptography, privacy,
cryptanalysis, cryptographic protocols, digital signatures, public-key cryptography,
hash functions, identification.