TCC 2008, the 5th Theory of Cryptography Conference, was held in New York,
New York, March 19–21, 2008, at New York University. TCC 2008 was sponsored
by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and was
organized in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science at New York
University and the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. The General
Chairs of the conference were Yevgeniy Dodis and Victor Shoup.
The conference received 81 submissions, of which the Program Committee
selected 34 for presentation at the conference. The authors of two papers then decided
to merge their papers, resulting in a total of 33 presented papers. The Best
Student Paper Award was given to Paul Valiant for his paper “Incrementally
Verifiable Computation or Knowledge Implies Time/Space Efficiency.” These
proceedings consist of revised versions of the presented papers. The revisions
were not reviewed. The authors bear full responsibility for the contents of their
papers.