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
Asiacrypt 2025
8 - 12 December 2025
Melbourne, Australia
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Fast Software Encryption
17 - 21 March 2025
Rome, Italy
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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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News

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

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TCC: TCC 2025: Theory of Cryptography Conference
Aarhus, Denmark, 2 December - 5 December 2025

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ePrint Report: PHOENIX: Crypto-Agile Hardware Sharing for ML-KEM and HQC
Antonio Ras, Antoine Loiseau, Mikaël Carmona, Simon Pontié, Guénaël Renault, Benjamin Smith, Emanuele Valea

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ePrint Report: Improved Round-by-round Soundness IOPs via Reed-Muller Codes
Dor Minzer, Kai Zhe Zheng

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ePrint Report: Nominal State-Separating Proofs
Markus Krabbe Larsen, Carsten Schürmann

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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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