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

eurocrypt

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Eurocrypt 2020
10 - 14 May 2020
Zagreb, Croatia
crypto

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Crypto 2020
16 - 20 August 2020
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
asiacrypt

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

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Theory of Cryptography Conference
1 - 5 December 2019
Nuremberg, Germany
fse

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Fast Software Encryption
22 - 26 March 2020
Athens, Greece
pkc

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Public Key Cryptography
4 - 7 May 2020
Edinburgh, Scotland
ches

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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 17 September 2020
Beijing, China
rwc

Photo: by Kenny Paterson

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

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Award: Test-of-Time Award winners for 2020 announced

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Eurocrypt: EUROCRYPT 2020 converted to an all-digital event

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

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ePrint Report: Parallel strategies for SIDH: Towards computing SIDH twice as fast
Daniel Cervantes-Vázquez, Eduardo Ochoa-Jiménez , Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez

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ePrint Report: Privacy-Preserving Incentive Systems with Highly Efficient Point-Collection
Jan Bobolz, Fabian Eidens, Stephan Krenn, Daniel Slamanig, Christoph Striecks

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ePrint Report: A PoR/PoS-Hybrid Blockchain: Proof of Reputation with Nakamoto Fallback
Leonard Kleinrock, Rafail Ostrovsky, Vassilis Zikas

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ePrint Report: Rowhammer Induced Intermittent Fault Attack on ECC-hardened memory
Anirban Chakraborty, Sarani Bhattacharya, Sayandeep Saha, Debdeep Mukhopdhyay

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ePrint Report: Post-quantum WireGuard
Andreas Hülsing, Kai-Chun Ning, Peter Schwabe, Florian Weber, Philip R. Zimmermann

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Recent Awards

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

Best Paper, ASIACRYPT 2019, Wave: A New Family of Trapdoor One-Way Preimage Sampleable Functions Based on Codes

TCC Test of Time Award, TCC 2008, Incrementally Verifiable Computation or Proofs of Knowledge Imply Time/Space Efficiency

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