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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cryptology in India, INDOCRYPT 2007, held in Chennai, India, in December 2007. The papers and three invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on hashing, elliptic curve, cryptoanalysis, information theoretic security, elliptic curve cryptography, signature, side channel attack, symmetric cryptosystem, asymmetric cryptosystem, and short papers.