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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Theory of Cryptography Conference
2 - 6 December 2024
Milan, Italy
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Fast Software Encryption
17 - 21 March 2025
Rome, Italy
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Real World Crypto Symposium
26 - 28 March 2025
Sofia, Bulgaria
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Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
14 - 18 September 2025
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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News

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Eurocrypt: Eurocrypt 2025 Registration

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ePrint Report: Assembly optimised Curve25519 and Curve448 implementations for ARM Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M33
Emil Lenngren

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ePrint Report: New Techniques for Analyzing Fully Secure Protocols: A Case Study of Solitary Output Secure Computation
Bar Alon, Benjamin Saldman, Eran Omri

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ePrint Report: Division polynomials for arbitrary isogenies
Katherine E. Stange

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ePrint Report: Masking-Friendly Post-Quantum Signatures in the Threshold-Computation-in-the-Head Framework
Thibauld Feneuil, Matthieu Rivain, Auguste Warmé-Janville

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ePrint Report: mid-pSquare: Leveraging the Strong Side-Channel Security of Prime-Field Masking in Software
Brieuc Balon, Lorenzo Grassi, Pierrick Méaux, Thorben Moos, François-Xavier Standaert, Matthias Johann Steiner

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ePrint Report: Designated-Verifier SNARGs with One Group Element
Gal Arnon, Jesko Dujmovic, Yuval Ishai

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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

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing the go-to tool for side channel attacks on CRT-RSA that played a pivotal role in helping secure the Internet., CRYPTO 2009, Reconstructing RSA Private Keys from Random Key Bits

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing the dual-system technique, breaking through the partitioning-reductions barrier of pairing-based cryptography and enabling new and improved pairing-based cryptosystems., CRYPTO 2009, Dual System Encryption: Realizing Fully Secure IBE and HIBE under Simple Assumptions

IACR Test of Time Award: For introducing a structured approach for evaluation of side-channel attacks and countermeasures, EUROCRYPT 2009, A Unified Framework for the Analysis of Side-Channel Key Recovery Attacks

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