ECC 2004 is the eighth in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. It took place September 20, 21 & 22, 2004 in Bochum, Germany.
For the first time the ECC workshop was be held together with a summer school on elliptic curve cryptography. This summer school was organized by VAMPIRE, the Virtual Application and Implementation Research Lab within the European project ECRYPT. The school took take place September 13-17, 2004, in the Ruhr-University Bochum.