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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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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Photo: by Kenny Paterson

Real World Crypto Symposium
7 - 9 March 2026
Taipei, Taiwan
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Photo: John-Mark Smith

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

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ePrint Report: GKR for Boolean Circuits with Sub-linear RAM Operations
Yuncong Hu, Chongrong Li, Zhi Qiu, Tiancheng Xie, Yue Ying, Jiaheng Zhang, Zhenfei Zhang

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ePrint Report: Shark: Actively Secure Inference using Function Secret Sharing
Kanav Gupta, Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, Jonathan Katz, Rahul Sharma

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ePrint Report: Updatable Signature with Public Tokens
Haotian Yin, Jie Zhang, Wanxin Li, Yuji Dong, Eng Gee Lim, Dominik Wojtczak

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ePrint Report: LOHEN: Layer-wise Optimizations for Neural Network Inferences over Encrypted Data with High Performance or Accuracy
Kevin Nam, Youyeon Joo, Dongju Lee, Seungjin Ha, Hyunyoung Oh, Hyungon Moon, Yunheung Paek

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ePrint Report: Threshold FHE with Efficient Asynchronous Decryption
Zvika Brakerski, Offir Friedman, Avichai Marmor, Dolev Mutzari, Yuval Spiizer, Ni Trieu

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ePrint Report: Fast Plaintext-Ciphertext Matrix Multiplication from Additively Homomorphic Encryption
Krishna Sai Tarun Ramapragada, Utsav Banerjee

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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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