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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Eurocrypt 2025
4 - 8 May 2025
Madrid, Spain
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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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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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FSE: FSE 2026: Fast Software Encryption
Singapore, Singapore, 23 March - 27 March 2026

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Real World Crypto: RWC 2026: Real World Crypto Symposium
Taipei, Taiwan, 9 March - 11 March 2026

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ePrint Report: Vector Commitment Design, Analysis, and Applications: A Survey
Vir Pathak, Sushmita Ruj, Ron van der Meyden

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ePrint Report: Adaptive Robustness of Hypergrid Johnson-Lindenstrauss
Andrej Bogdanov, Alon Rosen, Neekon Vafa, Vinod Vaikuntanathan

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ePrint Report: MProve-Nova: A Privacy-Preserving Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero
Varun Thakore, Saravanan Vijayakumaran

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ePrint Report: Publicly Verifiable Generalized Secret Sharing Schemes and Their Applications
Liang Zhang, Dongliang Cai, Tao Liu, Haibin Kan, Jiheng Zhang

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ePrint Report: Intermundium-DL: Assessing the Resilience of Current Schemes to Discrete-Log-Computation Attacks on Public Parameters
Mihir Bellare, Doreen Riepel, Laura Shea

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ePrint Report: Attribute-Based Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing
Liang Zhang, Xingyu Wu, Qiuling Yue, Haibin Kan, Jiheng Zhang

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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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