This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK in August/September 2005.
The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on side channels, arithmetic for cryptanalysis, low resources, special purpose hardware, hardware attacks and countermeasures, arithmetic for cryptography, trusted computing, and efficient hardware.