This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2016, held in Nanjing, China, in November 2016.The 17 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on attribute/role-based cryptography, data in cloud, searchable encryption, key management, encryption, leakage analysis, homomorphic encryption.