These are the proceedings of Crypto 2005, the 25th Annual International Cryptology
Conference. The conference was sponsored by the International Association
for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in cooperation with the IEEE Computer
Science Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Computer Science
Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The conference was
held in Santa Barbara, California, August 14–18, 2005.
The conference received 178 submissions, out of which the program committee
selected 33 for presentation. The selection process was carried out by the program
committee via an “online” meeting. The authors of selected papers had a few
weeks to prepare final versions of their papers, aided by comments from the
reviewers. However, most of these revisions were not subject to any editorial
review.