The 8 full papers, 10 short papers and 1 invited paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: security, privacy, applied cryptographic engineering, integration of machine learning techniques, reflecting the growing prominence of this approach in contemporary research on security and cryptography, hardware security, the exploration of post-quantum cryptography, and the development of efficient implementations for emerging cryptographic primitives.