IWSEC 2025: Call for Papers

The 20th International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2025) will be held at ACROS Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, from November 25 (Tue) to November 27 (Thu), 2025.

IWSEC is an annual international workshop, co-organized by ISEC of IEICE and CSEC of IPSJ.

Conference Scope

Original papers on the research and development of various security topics, as well as case studies and implementation experiments, are solicited for submission to IWSEC 2025. Topics of interest include all theory and practice of cryptography, information security, and network security.

Topics of Interest:

• Applied cryptography
• Biometrics security and privacy
• Blockchain and cryptocurrency
• Cryptanalysis
• Cryptographic primitives
• Cryptographic protocols
• Cyber physical systems
• Cyberattacks and defenses
• Financial cryptography
• Forensics
• Formal methods for security analysis
• Hardware security
• Human-computer interaction, security, and privacy
• Internet-of-Things security
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Law and ethics of cybersecurity
• Machine learning and AI security
• Malware analysis
• Measurements for cybersecurity
• Mobile and web security
• Multiparty computation
• Network, system and cloud security
• Offensive security
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Privacy-enhancing technologies
• Privacy-preserving data mining
• Program analysis
• Public-key cryptography
• Real-world cryptographic systems
• Software security
• Supply chain security
• Symmetric-key cryptography

Important Dates

First Submission:

• Submission deadline: April 10, 2025 (AoE) [extended]
• Notification of decision: June 2, 2025
• Camera-ready version due: June 30, 2025 (AoE) [extended]

Second Submission:

• Submission deadline: July 17, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification of decision: September 15, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera-ready version due: October 1, 2025 (AoE)

Best Paper Award

Prizes will be awarded to the authors of the Best Paper(s) and the Best Student Paper(s). The main author should be a full-time graduate or undergraduate student as of March 2025.

Journal Recommendation

Program Co-Chairs will recommend authors of selected papers to submit their full versions to either "IEICE Trans. on Fundamentals, Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security" or "Journal of Information Processing".

Proceedings

It is planned to publish the conference proceedings by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series.

Committees

• General Co-Chairs:
  • Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI Research Inc., Japan)
  • Tatsuya Mori (Waseda University, Japan)
• Program Co-Chairs:
  • Carlos Cid (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, and Simula UiB, Norway)
  • Naoto Yanai (Panasonic)

Instructions for Authors

• Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted in parallel to any other peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Papers must be written in English and be fully anonymous (no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references).
• Page Limit: At most 16 pages excluding appendices and references, and at most 20 pages including appendices and references.
• Formatting: Use Springer's authors' guidelines and templates (LaTeX or Word).
• Supplementary Materials: Optionally, any amount of clearly marked supplementary materials may be supplied after the main body of the submitted paper, but reviewers are not required to read them.
• Submission Method: Via href="https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iwsec2025" - EasyChair. Only PDF files will be accepted.
• Presentation: At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper.
• Authorship Changes: The title and list of authors of the final version cannot be changed without program co-chair approval.

Submission Page

Go to the Submission Page of EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iwsec2025