This Festschrift volume is published in honor of DavidKahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion ofDavid Kahn"s 80 th birthday. The title of this books leans on thetitle of a serious history of cryptology named "The Cryptographers", written byDavid Kahn and published in 1967.This volume contains 35 talks dealing withcryptography as a whole. They are organized in topical section named: history;technology - past, present, future; efficient cryptographic implementations;treachery and perfidy; information security; cryptanalysis; side-channelattacks; randomness embedded system security; public-key cryptography; andmodels and protocols.
