Applied Cryptography and Network Security

This three-volume set LNCS 15825-15827 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2025, held in Munich, Germany, during June 23-26, 2025.
The 55 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 241 submissions. The papers cover all technical aspects of applied cryptography, network and computer security and privacy, representing both academic research work as well as developments in industrial and technical frontiers.

Side Channels: Not So Secure TSC. - G-DBREACH Attacks: Algorithmic Techniques for Faster and Stronger Compression Side Channels. - Decompose and conquer: ZVP attacks on GLV curves. - Wolf in Sheep s Clothing: Understanding and Detecting Mobile Cloaking in Blackhat. Informatuion Security: Optimal Communication Unbalanced Private Set Union. - Negative Results on Information-theoretic Additive Randomized Encodings. - Two-party ECDSA with JavaCard-based smartcards. - MSED: A Linguistic Steganalysis Method Based on Multi-Granularity Semantic Extraction Using Dual-Mode Fusion. Privacy & Anonymity: Privately Compute the Item with Maximal Weight Sum in Set Intersection. - Algebraic Zero Knowledge Contingent Payment. - On Proofs of Plaintext Knowledge for the Joye-Libert Encryption Scheme. - AQQUA: Augmenting Quisquis with Auditability. Cryptanalysis: Security Analysis of Forward Secure Log Sealing in Journald. - Generic Security of GCM-SST. - Revisiting the attacker s knowledge in inference attacks against Searchable Symmetric Encryption. - On the Structural Properties of Toffoli Gate Composition in ARADI: Implications for Algebraic Distinguishers. Attacks & Vulnerabilities: CANTXSec: A Deterministic Intrusion Detection and Prevention System for CAN Bus Monitoring ECU Activations. - OCEAN: Open-World Contrastive Authorship Identification. - The Impact of SBOM Generators on Vulnerability Assessment in Python: A Comparison and a Novel Approach. - Protection Against Subversion Corruptions via Reverse Firewalls in the Plain Universal Composability Framework.