This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE 2018, held in Kanpur, India, in December 2018.
The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering. This is indeed a very challenging field, requiring the expertise from diverse domains, ranging from mathematics to solid-state circuit design.