Crypto 2025: Call for Papers

Crypto 2025, the 45th annual international cryptology conference, will be held in Santa Barbara, California, USA on August 17-21, 2025. The conference is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

General Information

Crypto 2025 is a hybrid conference, offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. Given recent instances of US visa holders and residents being detained or deported by US immigration authorities, we understand that some members of our community may not feel safe traveling to the US for Crypto this year. We want to assure everyone that we will provide the option to present remotely.

The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

Topics of Interest

Original research papers are welcomed on any cryptographic topic, including but not limited to:

• Foundational theory and mathematics
• The design, proposal, and analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols
• Secure implementation and optimization in hardware or software
• Applied aspects of cryptography

How to Submit

Author instructions for paper submission may be found on the submission page. The submission server is now open.

• Submit a paper

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: February 13, 2025, at 23:59 AoE (anywhere on earth)
• First round notification: April 7, 2025
• Rebuttal deadline: April 12, 2025
• Final notification: May 3, 2025
• Final versions due: June 5, 2025
• Conference begins: August 17, 2025

Review Process

Submissions must not substantially duplicate published work or work that has been submitted in parallel to any other journal or conference/workshop with published proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings.

The review process will consist of two rounds with a rebuttal phase. In the first round, the program committee will reject some submissions; the rest will proceed to the second round. At the end of the first round, the authors will be either notified of rejection, or invited to submit a response to questions from the program committee (if any). The authors' response will be used to make the final decision in the second round.

The double-blind review process will follow the IACR Conflict of Interest Policy. The authors will be asked, at submission time, to help identify program committee members with potential conflicts of interest.

Awards

The Program Committee may choose one or more papers to receive an overall Best Paper Award. The Program Committee may also award a prize for the best paper(s) authored exclusively by students and postdocs (at the time of submission). Awards will only be given if deserving papers are identified.

Stipends

Students whose papers have been accepted and who present their talks at the conference will have their registration fees waived. A limited number of stipends will be available to those unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students in under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Application instructions will be posted together with other registration information.

Program Committee

Area chairs:

• Shweta Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
• Sonia Belaïd (CryptoExperts)
• Zvika Brakerski (Weizmann Institute of Science)
• Craig Costello (Microsoft Research)
• Yuval Ishai (Technion and AWS)
• Dakshita Khurana (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
• Gaëtan Leurent (Inria)
• Rafael Pass (Cornell)
• Mike Rosulek (Oregon State University)
• Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Daniel Wichs (Northeastern University)

Program co-chairs:

• Seny Kamara (MongoDB and Brown University)
• Yael Tauman Kalai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))
• crypto2025programchairs@iacr.org

General chair:

• Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez (Technology Innovation Institute (TII))
• crypto2025@iacr.org