International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) is a non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields. Cryptology is the science and practice of designing computation and communication systems which are secure in the presence of adversaries.

Events

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Asiacrypt 2024
9 - 13 December 2024
Kolkata, India
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Eurocrypt 2025
4 - 8 May 2025
Madrid, Spain
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Crypto 2025
17 - 21 August 2025
Isla Vista, USA
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Theory of Cryptography Conference
2 - 6 December 2024
Milan, Italy
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Fast Software Encryption
17 - 21 March 2025
Rome, Italy
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Real World Crypto Symposium
26 - 28 March 2025
Sofia, Bulgaria
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The International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
12 - 15 May 2025
Røros, Norway
ches

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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 18 September 2025
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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News

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ePrint Report: ABLE: Optimizing Mixed Arithmetic and Boolean Garbled Circuit
Jianqiao Cambridge Mo, Brandon Reagen

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ePrint Report: Time-Lock Puzzles from Lattices
Shweta Agrawal, Giulio Malavolta, Tianwei Zhang

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ePrint Report: The Meta-Complexity of Secret Sharing
Benny Applebaum, Oded Nir

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ePrint Report: IND-CPA$^{\text{C}}$: A New Security Notion for Conditional Decryption in Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi, Anirban Chakraborty, Nimish Mishra, Ayantika Chatterjee, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

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ePrint Report: Registered ABE and Adaptively-Secure Broadcast Encryption from Succinct LWE
Jeffrey Champion, Yao-Ching Hsieh, David J. Wu

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ePrint Report: SoK: Time to be Selfless?! Demystifying the Landscape of Selfish Mining Strategies and Models
Colin Finkbeiner, Mohamed E. Najd, Julia Guskind, Ghada Almashaqbeh

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ePrint Report: Structural Results for Maximal Quaternion Orders and Connecting Ideals of Prime Power Norm in $B_{p,\infty}$
James Clements

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ePrint Report: Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials with Highly Efficient Partial Disclosure
Omid Mirzamohammadi, Jan Bobolz, Mahdi Sedaghat, Emad Heydari Beni, Aysajan Abidin, Dave Singelee, Bart Preneel

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Recent Awards

IACR Test of Time Award: For inventing the abort technique in the Fiat-Shamir transformation, which became the foundation of the NIST-standardized Dilithium lattice-based signature scheme., ASIACRYPT 2009, Fiat-Shamir with Aborts: Applications to Lattice and Factoring-Based Signatures

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing the first efficient public-key encryption scheme with security based on the worst-case hardness of the approximate Shortest Vector Problem in structured ideal lattices., ASIACRYPT 2009, Efficient Public Key Encryption Based on Ideal Lattices

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing the go-to tool for side channel attacks on CRT-RSA that played a pivotal role in helping secure the Internet., CRYPTO 2009, Reconstructing RSA Private Keys from Random Key Bits

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing the dual-system technique, breaking through the partitioning-reductions barrier of pairing-based cryptography and enabling new and improved pairing-based cryptosystems., CRYPTO 2009, Dual System Encryption: Realizing Fully Secure IBE and HIBE under Simple Assumptions

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing a structured approach for evaluation of side-channel attacks and countermeasures, EUROCRYPT 2009, A Unified Framework for the Analysis of Side-Channel Key Recovery Attacks

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