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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November/December 2011. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of post-quantum public key cryptosystems such as cryptosystems that have the potential to resist possible future quantum computers, classical and quantum attacks, and security models for the post-quantum era..