This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2002, held in Santa Barbara, CA, in August 2002. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 175 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block ciphers, multi-user oriented cryptosystems, foundations and methodology, security and practical protocols, secure multiparty computation, public key encryption, information theory and secret sharing, cipher design and analysis, elliptic curves and Abelian varieties, authentication, distributed cryptosystems, pseudorandomness, stream ciphers and Boolean functions, commitment schemes, and signature schemes.