Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2025: 45th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 17–21, 2025, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 16002)

The 8-volume set LNCS 16000-16008 constitutes the proceedings of the 45th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2025, which took place in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, during August 17-21, 2025.The total of 156 full papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 643 submissions. They focus on cryptographic topics such as foundational theory and mathematics; the design, proposal, and analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols; secure implementation and optimization in hardware or software; applied aspects of cryptography.