This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography SAC 2012 held in Windsor Ontario Canada in August 2012. The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: cryptanalysis digital signatures stream ciphers implementations block cipher cryptanalysis lattices hashfunctions blockcipher constructions and miscellaneous.