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.

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Events

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Crypto 2020
17 - 21 August 2020
Virtual
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Photo: Mikael Kristenson

Asiacrypt 2020
6 - 10 December 2020
Daejeon, South Korea
eurocrypt

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Eurocrypt 2021
2 - 6 May 2021
Zagreb, Croatia
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Public Key Cryptography
1 - 4 June 2020
Virtual
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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 17 September 2020
Beijing, China
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Fast Software Encryption
8 - 12 November 2020
Athens, Greece
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Theory of Cryptography Conference
16 - 19 November 2020
Durham , USA
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Photo: by Kenny Paterson

Real World Crypto Symposium
11 - 13 January 2021
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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News

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Announcement: PKC Virtual Conference Program and Registration is Live

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Event Calendar: SoftCOM 2020: SoftCOM 2020 - Symposium on Smart Environments & Internet of Things
Hvar, Croatia, 17 September - 19 September 2020

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Event Calendar: MC21: MathCrypt 2021
Santa Barbara, USA, -

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Job Posting: Postdoc Research Fellow x3
Cryptanalysis Taskforce @ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Job Posting: Post-Doc
Carnegie Mellon University

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Job Posting: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Symmetric Cryptography
CryptoLux Group, University of Luxembourg

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ePrint Report: PSI-Stats: Private Set Intersection Protocols Supporting Secure Statistical Functions
Jason H. M. Ying, Shuwei Cao, Geong Sen Poh, Jia Xu, Hoon Wei Lim

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ePrint Report: The Direction of Updatable Encryption does not Matter Much
Yao Jiang

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Recent Awards

Best Young Researcher Award, EUROCRYPT 2020, Private Information Retrieval with Sublinear Online Time

Best Paper Award, EUROCRYPT 2020, Optimal Broadcast Encryption from Pairings and LWE

IACR Test of Time Award: For a breakthrough in the cryptanalysis of hash functions, CRYPTO 2005, Finding Collisions in the Full SHA-1

Best Paper and IACR Test of Time Award: For developing a new meta-reduction approach in the security proof of cryptosystems, ASIACRYPT 2005, Discrete-Log-Based Signatures May Not Be Equivalent to Discrete Log

IACR Test of Time Award: For laying the foundations of attribute-based encryption and other advanced notions of encryption, EUROCRYPT 2005, Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption

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