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

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Crypto 2020
17 - 21 August 2020
Virtual
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Asiacrypt 2020
6 - 10 December 2020
Daejeon, South Korea
eurocrypt

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Eurocrypt 2021
2 - 6 May 2021
Zagreb, Croatia
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Public Key Cryptography
1 - 4 June 2020
Virtual
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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 17 September 2020
Beijing, China
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Fast Software Encryption
8 - 12 November 2020
Athens, Greece
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Theory of Cryptography Conference
16 - 19 November 2020
Durham , USA
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Photo: by Kenny Paterson

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

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Announcement: PKC Virtual Conference Program and Registration is Live

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CHES: CHES 2020 Capture the Flag (CTF) Challenge

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ePrint Report: Master-Key KDM-Secure IBE from Pairings
Sanjam Garg, Romain Gay, Mohammad Hajiabadi

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ePrint Report: LadderLeak: Breaking ECDSA With Less Than One Bit Of Nonce Leakage
Diego F. Aranha, Felipe Rodrigues Novaes, Akira Takahashi, Mehdi Tibouchi, Yuval Yarom

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ePrint Report: Lattice-Based E-Cash, Revisited
Amit Deo, Benoit Libert, Khoa Nguyen, Olivier Sanders

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ePrint Report: SiGamal: A supersingular isogeny-based PKE and its application to a PRF
Tomoki Moriya, Hiroshi Onuki, Tsuyoshi Takagi

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ePrint Report: Key Assignment Schemes with Authenticated Encryption, revisited
Jeroen Pijnenburg, Bertram Poettering

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ePrint Report: Efficient and Fast Hardware Architectures for SIKE Round 2 on FPGA
Rami Elkhatib, Reza Azarderakhsh, Mehran Mozaffari-Kermani

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Recent Awards

Best Young Researcher Award, EUROCRYPT 2020, Private Information Retrieval with Sublinear Online Time

Best Paper Award, EUROCRYPT 2020, Optimal Broadcast Encryption from Pairings and LWE

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

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