This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2020, held in Rennes, France in July 2020.
Due to the COVID-19, the workshop was held online.
The 12 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on invited talks, Finite Field Arithmetic, Coding Theory, Network Security and much more.