The 15th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS2017) will be held in Kanazawa, Japan in July 2017. It will be organized by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and Osaka University.

ACNS is an annual conference focusing on innovative research and current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography, cyber security and privacy. Both academic research works with high relevance to real-world problems as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers fall within the scope of the conference.

Previous events in the ACNS conference series were successfully held in Kunming, China (2003), Yellow Mountain, China (2004), New York, USA (2005), Singapore (2006), Zhuhai, China (2007), New York, USA (2008), Paris, France (2009), Beijing, China (2010), Malaga, Spain (2011), Singapore (2012), Banff, Canada (2013), Lausanne, Switzerland (2014), New York, USA (2015) and London, UK (2016). The conference proceedings are published in the LNCS series.