Call for Papers: CANS 2025

The International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) is a premier forum for presenting research in the field of cryptology and network security. The conference seeks academic, industry, and government submissions on all theoretical and practical aspects of cryptology and network security, and its extended domains in modern computing systems.

This year marks the 24th iteration of the conference and will be held at Osaka, Japan. Proceedings of this year’s conference will be published by Springer LNCS; proceedings of previous iterations of the conference can be found online.

Submission Guidelines

• High-quality papers on unpublished research and implementation experiences may be submitted.
• All papers must be original and not substantially duplicated work that has been published at, or is simultaneously submitted to, a journal or another conference or workshop.
• All submissions must be written in English and span no more than 20 pages in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, including title, abstract, and bibliography. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level understandable by a non-expert reader and explain the context to related work.
• Submitted papers may contain supplementary material in the form of well-marked appendices or a separate file archive (particularly for source code, data files, etc.). Note that supplementary material will not be included in the proceedings. Moreover, the main paper should be intelligible without requiring the reader to consult the supplementary material; the reviewers may optionally refer to the supplementary material, but are also permitted to base their assessment on the main paper alone.
• Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper.
• The conference will also consider short papers of up to eight pages in the LNCS format, excluding the bibliography (max 2 pages), for results that are not yet fully fleshed out or that simply require fewer pages to describe but still make a significant contribution.
• All submissions must be processed with LaTeX2e according to the instructions given by Springer. Submitted manuscripts must be typeset in plain Springer LNCS format, in particular without changing the font size, margins or line spacing. Submissions not meeting these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits.
• Papers must be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cans2025.

Important Dates

• Registration of new submissions permitted until: April 28, 2025 AoE.
• Updates of existing submissions permitted until: May 1st, 2025 AoE.
• Notification: July 10, 2025
• Camera-ready: August 14, 2025
• Conference: November 17–20, 2025

Presentation Requirements

At least one author of every accepted paper must register and pay the full registration fee (non-student) for the conference by the early registration deadline indicated by the organizers. Papers without a registered author will be removed from the sessions. Authors must present their own paper(s).

Stipend

The CANS 2025 conference will offer a student grant program to partially support travel and accommodation expenses for full-time students. Eligibility is limited to students whose papers have been accepted, who have paid the conference fee, and who will present their paper at the conference in CANS 2025.

CANS 2025 Best Paper Awards

The Program Committee will consider giving a Best Paper Award to the submission with highest merits. (Details to be announced.)

Topic Areas

1. Cryptographic Primitives and Protocols
   • Symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography
   • Public key encryption
   • Digital signatures
   • Key exchange
   • Hash functions
2. Cryptographic Foundations
   • Foundations of cryptography
   • Secure multi-party computation
   • Zero-knowledge proofs
   • Post-quantum cryptography
   • Lattice-based cryptography
3. Network and System Security
   • Network security
   • Malware analysis
   • Intrusion detection
   • Secure routing and naming
   • Wireless and mobile security
4. Privacy and Data Protection
   • Privacy-preserving data mining
   • Differential privacy
   • Anonymity and censorship resistance
   • Privacy in machine learning
5. Applications and Emerging Technologies
   • Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
   • Secure computation in the cloud
   • IoT security
   • AI and security

Sponsorship

• Supported by IEICE Technical Committee on Information and Communication System Security (ICSS)
• Supported by Technical Committee on Information Security (ISEC)
• Supported by Special Interest Group on Security Psychology and Trust (IPSJ-SPT)