This book constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Code-Based Cryptography, CBCrypto 2020, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May 2020.*<p>The seven papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. These contributions focus on various topics such as code-based cryptography, from design to implementation, security, new systems, and improved decoding algorithms.</p>

<p><b>*</b> The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>