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

eurocrypt

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Eurocrypt 2025
4 - 8 May 2025
Madrid, Spain
crypto

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Crypto 2025
17 - 21 August 2025
Santa Barbara, USA
asiacrypt

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Asiacrypt 2025
8 - 12 December 2025
Melbourne, Australia
pkc

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The International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
12 - 15 May 2025
Røros, Norway
ches

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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 18 September 2025
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
tcc

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

Photo: by Kenny Paterson

Real World Crypto Symposium
7 - 9 March 2026
Taipei, Taiwan
fse

Photo: John-Mark Smith

Fast Software Encryption
23 - 27 March 2026
Singapore, Singapore
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News

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Award: Announcing the 2025 IACR Test-of-Time Award for Eurocrypt

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Award: IACR Fellows 2025

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ePrint Report: One More Motivation to Use Evaluation Tools, This Time for Hardware Multiplicative Masking of AES
Hemin Rahimi, Amir Moradi

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ePrint Report: Quantum pseudoresources imply cryptography
Alex B. Grilo, Álvaro Yángüez

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ePrint Report: The Sponge is Quantum Indifferentiable
Gorjan Alagic, Joseph Carolan, Christian Majenz, Saliha Tokat

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ePrint Report: Tetris! Traceable Extendable Threshold Ring Signatures and More
Gennaro Avitabile, Vincenzo Botta, Dario Fiore

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ePrint Report: Private Information Retrieval based on Homomorphic Encryption, Revisited
Jaeseon Kim, Jeongeun Park, Hyewon Sung

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ePrint Report: SNAIL: Verifiable Computation within 30% of Native Speed
Ole Hylland Spjeldnæs

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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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