Arithmetic of Finite Fields

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field WAIFI 2016 held in Ghent Belgium in July 2016. <p>The 14 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited talks; elliptic curves; applications; irreducible polynomials; applications to cryptography; Boolean functions; cryptography; cryptography and Boolean functions.</p>