This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE 2018, held in Kanpur, India, in December 2018. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions.

Cryptographic Engineering.- Design of Cryptographic Primitive.- Random Number Generators and PUFs.- Cryptographic Hardware Cryptographic Software.- Cryptographic Protocols.- Formal Methods in Cryptographic Engineering.- Evaluation of Cryptosystems.- Attacks and Countermeasures.- Side-channel Analysis and Countermeasures.- Fault Analysis and Countermeasures.- Reverse Engineering and Tampering.- Hardware Trojans and Counterfeit Detection.- Cryptanalysis.- Security and Privacy.- Secure Networking Protocols.- Authentication and Authorization Botnets.- Anonymity Intrusion Detection.- Operating Systems Security.- Trustworthy Computing.- Malware and Malware Detection.- Testing for Secure.