These are the proceedings of SAC 2006, the thirteenth annual workshop on Selected
Areas in Cryptography. The workshop was sponsored by the Concordia Institute
for Information Systems Engineering, in cooperation with the IACR, the
International Association of Cryptologic Research, www.iacr.org. This year’s
themes for SAC were:
1. Design and analysis of symmetric key cryptosystems
2. Primitives for symmetric key cryptography, including block and stream ciphers,
hash functions, and MAC algorithms
3. Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms
4. Side-channel analysis (DPA, DFA, Cache analysis, etc.)