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<p>This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2016, held in Milan, Italy, in November 2016.</p>The 30 full papers presented together with 18 short papers and 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: cryptanalysis of symmetric key; side channel attacks and implementation; lattice-based cryptography, virtual private network; signatures and hash; multi party computation; symmetric cryptography and authentication; system security, functional and homomorphic encryption; information theoretic security; malware and attacks; multi party computation and functional encryption; and network security, privacy, and authentication.<p></p><br><p></p>