Advances in Information and Computer Security

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2014, held in Hirosaki, Japan, in August 2014. The 13 regular papers presented together with 8 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The focus of the workshop was on the following topics: system security, threshold cryptography, hardware security, foundation, and encryption.