This bookconstitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on theTheory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2016,held in Fes, Morooco, in April 2016.

The 18papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 65submissions. The aim of Africacrypt 2016 is to provide an international forumfor practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government fromall over the world for a wide ranging discussion of all forms of cryptography. Topicsof interest are such as lattices; elliptic curves; secret-key cryptanalysis;efficient implementations; secure protocols; and public-key cryptography.