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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th annual Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography. WAHC was created in 2013 as a forum to organize and foster discussion of a wide variety of aspects of encrypted computing and secure computation.

In a world where distance is no longer an obstacle for cooperation, secure computation is becoming a key feature of current and future information systems. Distributed network applications and cloud architectures are at danger because lots of personal consumer data is aggregated in all kinds of formats and for various purposes. Industry and consumer electronics companies are facing massive threats like theft of intellectual property and industrial espionage. Public infrastructure has to be secured against sabotage and manipulation. A possible solution is encrypted computing: Data can be processed on remote, possibly insecure resources, while program code and data is encrypted all the time. This allows to outsource the computation of confidential information independently from the trustworthiness or the security level of the remote system. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers with practitioners and industry to present, discuss and to share the latest progress in the field. We want to exchange ideas that address real-world problems with practical approaches and solutions.

The workshop is typically uniformly attended by academia, government, and industry, with attendees both from prior years with experience in the domain and new attendees learning from the community. Specific encrypted computing technologies focus on homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation but also need to interoperate with existing technologies and infrastructures. The technologies and techniques discussed in this workshop are key to extending the range of applications that can be securely and practically outsourced.