Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2025: Call for Papers

The 32nd edition of Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) 2025 will take place at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from August 13–15, 2025. The conference will be preceded by the SAC Summer School on August 11–12, 2025.

SAC is Canada’s research conference on cryptography, held annually since 1994.

Topics

Authors are encouraged to submit original papers related to the following themes:

• Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC algorithms, and authenticated encryption schemes.
• Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms.
• Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology, including post-quantum cryptology.
• Special Focus for SAC 2025: Machine learning and cryptography: applications of machine learning to cryptography and cryptanalysis, and application of cryptanalytic techniques against machine learning algorithms.

SAC 2025 also welcomes papers in any of the areas above with a focus on post-quantum cryptography.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline (cycle 1): Monday, January 27, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification (cycle 1): Thursday, March 13, 2025
• Paper submission deadline (cycle 2): Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification (cycle 2): Friday, June 20, 2025
• SAC Summer School: Monday, August 11 – Tuesday, August 12, 2025
• Conference: Wednesday, August 13 – Friday, August 15, 2025

Submission Instructions

Submission instructions are available for detailed guidance.

Conference Co-Chairs

• Christina Boura, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
• Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan, Cybersecurity Research Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Ali Miri, Department of Computer Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sponsors

Thank you to our generous sponsors:

• Springer LNCS
• Communications Security Establishment Canada
• Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Science
• Toronto Metropolitan University Department of Computer Science
• Rogers Cybersecurity Catalyst
• Office of the President
• Office of the Provost