IACR Test-of-Time Award Nominations
The IACR Test-of-Time Award is given annually for each one of the three IACR general conferences (Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt). An award will be given at a conference for a paper which has had a lasting impact on the field and was published 15 years prior. More information about the Test-of-Time Award can be found in the policy guidelines document.
The individual conferences CHES, TCC, and PKC each have their own Test-of-Time Award for papers published at these conferences. These follow slightly different policies.
The selection committee welcomes nominations, although a paper need not be nominated to win an award. The 2024 award will be for papers published in 2009. Papers published in the three IACR general conferences of 2009 will be eligible for the 2024 award.
Nominations for the 2024 award will be accepted until February 28, 2024.
Nomination Process
To nominate a paper send an email to
containing
the following information.
- paper title;
- paper authors;
- which of the three IACR general conferences for the relevant year the paper appeared at;
- reason for nomination
The reason for nomination should be at most 300 words explaining why the paper has stood the test of time, what influence it has had on the field, and the impact the paper has had. The impact or influence can be either on the field, on another field, theoretical concerns, or for applications in the real world.
Award Committee (2024)
The selection committee in any year includes two members appointed by the IACR Board of Directors, and three program chairs of the current year's IACR general conferences as ex-officio members.
- Tal Rabin (chair)
- Jean-Sébastian Coron (chair 2025)
- Kai-Min Chung (Asiacrypt 2024 program co-chair)
- Leo Reyzin (Crypto 2024 program co-chair)
- Gregor Leander (Eurocrypt 2024 program co-chair)
Previous Committee Members
- Shweta Agrawal (Asiacrypt 2022 program co-chair)
- Alexandra Boldyreva (Crypto 2019 program co-chair)
- Dan Boneh (2019-2020, chair 2019)
- Anne Canteaut (Eurocrypt 2020 program co-chair)
- Stefan Dziembowski (Eurocrypt 2022 program co-chair)
- Steven Galbraith (Asiacrypt 2019 program co-chair)
- Jian Guo (Asiacrypt 2023 program co-chair)
- Yuval Ishai (Eurocrypt 2019 program co-chair)
- Marc Joye (Eurocrypt 2024 program co-chair)
- Anna Lysyanskaya (Crypto 2023 program co-chair)
- Ueli Maurer (2020-2021, chair 2021)
- Daniele Micciancio (Crypto 2020 program co-chair)
- Shiho Morai (Asiacrypt 2020 program co-chair)
- Tatsuaki Okamoto (2019-2020, chair 2020)
- Chris Peikert (Crypto 2021 program co-chair)
- Kazue Sako (chair 2023)
- Nigel Smart (chair 2022)
- Thomas Shrimpton (Crypto 2022 program co-chair)
- Francois-Xavier Standaert (Eurocrypt 2021 program co-chair)
- Mehdi Tibouchi (Asiacrypt 2021 program co-chair)
Contact
The chair of the selection committee can be reached via email at
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