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

eurocrypt

Photo: Pixabay

Eurocrypt 2025
4 - 8 May 2025
Madrid, Spain
crypto

Photo: John Wiley User:Jw4nvc - Santa Barbara, California [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Crypto 2025
17 - 21 August 2025
Santa Barbara, USA
Asiacrypt 2025
8 - 12 December 2025
Melbourne, Australia
tcc

Photo: pxhere.com, CC0 Public Domain

Theory of Cryptography Conference
2 - 6 December 2024
Milan, Italy
fse

Photo: John-Mark Smith

Fast Software Encryption
17 - 21 March 2025
Rome, Italy
rwc

Photo: by Kenny Paterson

Real World Crypto Symposium
26 - 28 March 2025
Sofia, Bulgaria
ches

Photo: GraphicCycle [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 18 September 2025
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
More events...

News

ePrint Report icon

ePrint Report: SecurED: Secure Multiparty Edit Distance for Genomic Sequences
Jiahui Gao, Yagaagowtham Palanikuma, Dimitris Mouris, Duong Tung Nguyen, Ni Trieu

ePrint Report icon

ePrint Report: SCAPEgoat: Side-channel Analysis Library
Dev Mehta, Trey Marcantino, Mohammad Hashemi, Sam Karkache, Dillibabu Shanmugam, Patrick Schaumont, Fatemeh Ganji

ePrint Report icon

ePrint Report: Scoop: An Optimizer for Profiling Attacks against Higher-Order Masking
Nathan Rousselot, Karine Heydemann, Loïc Masure, Vincent Migairou

ePrint Report icon

ePrint Report: Fast Scloud+: A Fast Hardware Implementation for the Unstructured LWE-based KEM - Scloud+
Jing Tian, Yaodong Wei, Dejun Xu, Kai Wang, Anyu Wang, Zhiyuan Qiu, Fu Yao, Guang Zeng

ePrint Report icon

ePrint Report: Shortcut2Secrets: A Table-based Differential Fault Attack Framework
Weizhe Wang, Pierrick Méaux, Deng Tang

ePrint Report icon

ePrint Report: Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis of PRESENT Lightweight Cipher
Nilupulee A Gunathilake, Owen Lo, William J Buchanan, Ahmed Al-Dubai

More news...

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

More awards...