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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Crypto 2025
17 - 21 August 2025
Santa Barbara, USA
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Asiacrypt 2025
8 - 12 December 2025
Melbourne, Australia
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Eurocrypt 2026
10 - 14 May 2026
Rome, Italy
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The International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
12 - 15 May 2025
Røros, Norway
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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 18 September 2025
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Theory of Cryptography Conference
2 - 5 December 2025
Aarhus, Denmark
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Real World Crypto Symposium
7 - 9 March 2026
Taipei, Taiwan
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Fast Software Encryption
23 - 27 March 2026
Singapore, Singapore
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News

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Eurocrypt: Eurocrypt 2026: Eurocrypt 2026
Rome, Italy, 10 May - 14 May 2026

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Event Calendar: Decrypting Diversity Summit
Montpellier, France, 17 June - 20 June 2025

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Event Calendar: Summer School on Security & Privacy in the Age of AI
Leuven, Belgium, 9 September - 12 September 2025

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ePrint Report: Achieving "beyond CCA1" security for linearly homomorphic encryption, without SNARKs?
Marina Checri, Pierre-Emmanuel Clet, Marc Renard, Renaud Sirdey

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ePrint Report: MacaKey: Full-State Keyed Sponge Meets the Summation-Truncation Hybrid
Charlotte Lefevre, Mario Marhuenda Beltrán

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ePrint Report: Practical cryptanalysis of pseudorandom correlation generators based on quasi-Abelian syndrome decoding
Charles Bouillaguet, Claire Delaplace, Mickaël Hamdad, Damien Vergnaud

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ePrint Report: Obfuscation of Unitary Quantum Programs
Mi-Ying (Miryam) Huang, Er-Cheng Tang

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ePrint Report: SPEEDY: Caught at Last
Christina Boura, Patrick Derbez, Baptiste Germon, Rachelle Heim Boissier, María Naya-Plasencia

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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

Best paper award, CRYPTO 2024, Space-Efficient and Noise-Robust Quantum Factoring

Best paper award, CRYPTO 2024, STIR: Reed–Solomon Proximity Testing with Fewer Queries

Best Paper Authored by Early Career Researchers, CRYPTO 2024, Lossy Cryptography from Code-Based Assumptions

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