This
book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on
Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2016, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in February
2016.

The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 42 submissions. The papers cover all technical aspects of multivariate polynomial cryptography, code-based
cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, quantum algorithms, post-quantum
protocols, and implementations.