Be aware that authors of accepted papers must guarantee
that their paper will be presented in person at the conference by one of the authors.
Eurocrypt 2026, the 45th annual international conference on the theory and applications of cryptographic techniques, will take place in Rome, Italy on 10-14 May 2026. Eurocrypt 2026 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.
Original research papers are welcomed on any cryptographic topic, including but not limited to:
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented in person at the conference by one of the authors.
Submissions must be at most 27 pages using the Springer LNCS format, including title page and figures, but excluding references. Optionally, any amount of clearly marked supplementary material may be supplied, following after the main body of the paper. However, reviewers are not required to read or review beyond the main body, and submissions are expected to be intelligible, and show sufficient scientific quality and depth, without the supplementary material.
The above in particular means that submissions are expected to present the core technical part of the result(s) in the main body. Thus, the main body should allow the reader to understand and verify what is at the heart of the contribution, conceptually and technically; the supplementary material should be used mainly for tying up the loose ends, spelling out the less innovative parts, providing extensions/generalizations, etc.
The final published version of an accepted paper will be limited to 30 pages including references and is expected to closely match the submission. For further details, consult the paper submission page.
Submission deadline at 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)
Affiliated events submission deadline at 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)
Rebuttal period begins
Rebuttal period ends
Final notification
Student stipend request deadline
Conference begins
Eurocrypt 2026 will operate a two-round review system with a rebuttal phase. Before the first round, submissions that do not abide by the rules set out on the paper submission page (anonymity, formatting, etc) will be desk-rejected, without consideration of their merits. In the first round, the program committee selects the submissions that will proceed to the second round, and the authors receive the first round notification. The authors of the selected submissions are invited to submit a text-based rebuttal letter to respond to the reviews. Furthermore, in cases where this is considered useful by the PC chairs and/or the reviewers, additional communication between authors and reviewers may be initiated (in both rounds).
The submissions that have not been selected during the first round of reviews (early rejects) may be submitted to other conferences after the first round notification date.
In the second round, the program committee further reviews the selected submissions by taking into account the rebuttal letters. The committee then makes the final decision of acceptance or rejection.
Until final decisions have been made, authors can only withdraw their paper with the approval of the program chairs.
Program committee members and area chairs are restricted to submit either 1 single-author paper, up to 2 papers if at least one of them is with a co-author, or up to 3 papers if all are with co-authors and at least two are with student co-authors. The program committee co-chairs are not allowed to submit any papers.
The program committee may choose one or more papers to receive an overall Best Paper Award. In a continuing effort to promote independent work by researchers at early stages of their careers, the program committee may also award a prize for the best paper(s) authored exclusively by early-career researchers. As usual, awards will only be given if deserving papers are identified.
Students whose papers have been accepted and who present their talks at the conference will have their registration fees waived. Furthermore, a limited number of stipends are available to students that are unable to obtain funding to attend the conference. Students in underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Application instructions will be posted together with other registration information.
To encourage open and reproducible research, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit artifacts associated with their papers, such as software or datasets, for review. The artifact review will be a collaborative process between authors and the artifact review committee. The goal of the process is not just to evaluate artifacts, but also to improve them for reproduction and reusability by the scientific community. Artifacts that pass successfully through the artifact review process will be archived on IACR's artifact archive. The detailed call for artifacts will be available later.
The program committee members relied on approximately 700 external reviewers whose expertise was essential in providing about half of the reviews (1000 out of 2200 total reviews). Among these 700 external reviewers, some outliers completed four or more reviews. We thank them for their dedication, and list them below to show our appreciation.
eurocrypt2026programchairs at iacr.org
eurocrypt2026 at iacr.org