CT-RSA 2025: Call for Papers

The Cryptographers' Track (CT-RSA) at RSA Conference (RSAC) is the premier venue for scientific papers on cryptography within the broader RSA Conference, which attracts over 40,000 attendees from industry, government, and academia. CT-RSA presents a unique opportunity for researchers to share their work with a broader audience than at a typical academic conference.

CT-RSA 2025 will take place in San Francisco, California, USA, from April 28–May 1, 2025.

Submission Topics

Original papers on all technical aspects of cryptology are solicited for submission. Papers of interest to the wider audience of security professionals at RSA Conference are especially encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Blockchains and distributed ledger security
• Code based cryptography
• Cryptanalysis
• Cryptographic standards
• Design and security analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols
• Differential privacy
• Formal verification of cryptographic security properties
• Hardware & software implementations
• Indistinguishable obfuscation
• Information-theoretic cryptography
• Multi-party computation and zero-knowledge
• Novel applications of cryptography
• Physically unclonable functions
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Privacy
• Public-key cryptography algorithms and protocols
• Public-key encryption and advanced encryption schemes
• Side-channel attacks and defenses
• Symmetric-key cryptography
• Theory of leakage resistance
• Time-released cryptography and PoW
• White-box cryptography

Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers

We also welcome Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers. These papers will not be judged on novel research contributions, but on their value to the research community. SoK papers should provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area; support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence; or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate for acceptance.

Replicability

For submissions including practical evaluations, it is encouraged (but not required) to make implementations available to facilitate replicability and reproducibility.

Publication

Accepted papers (including SoK papers) will appear in the CT-RSA proceedings, published by Springer in its LNCS series.

Presentation Requirements

CT-RSA is scheduled to be an in-person event. It is strongly preferred that authors of accepted papers present their work in-person. Exceptions will be made only in the case of serious extenuating circumstances, such as COVID restrictions, visa delays, and other emergencies. The presenter of each paper will be given a free Full Pass to RSA Conference.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: October 30, 2024
• Notification of decision: January 10, 2025
• Camera-ready versions due: January 20, 2025
• Author presentations due: April 03, 2025
• Conference: April 28–May 1, 2025

Submission Process

Papers should be submitted through the official submission portal: Paper Submission.

Program Committee

• Riham AlTawy, University of Victoria, Canada
• Elena Andreeva, TU Wien, Austria
• Shi Bai, Florida, Atlantic University, USA
• Shivam Basin, NTU Singapore, Singapore
• Lejla Batina, Radboud University, The Netherlands
• Sarani Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Michele Ciampi, University of Edinburg, UK
• Sofia Celi, Brave, Portugal
• Suvradip Chakraborty, Visa Research, USA
• Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK
• Avijit Dutta, TCG Crest, India
• Maria Eichlseder, Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Patrick Felke, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany
• Antonio Flórez-Gutiérrez, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, Japan
• Julius Hermelink, MPI-SP, Germany
• Javier Herranz, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Tetsu Iwata, Nagoya University, Japan
• Fuyuki Kitagawa, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, Japan
• Lisa Kohl, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Péter Kutas, University of Birmingham and Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• Yi-fu Lai, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
• Fenghao Liu, Washington State University, USA
• Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts & Web3 Foundation, Switzerland
• Victor Mateu, TII, Abu Dhabi
• Brice Minaud, INRIA and ENS, France
• Amir Moradi, TU Darmstad, Germany
• David Naccache, École normale supérieure, France
• Khoa Nguyen, University of Wollongong, Australia
• Anca Nitulescu, Input Output Global, France
• Arpita Patra (chair), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
• Sikhar Patranabis, IBM Research India, India
• Eduardo Persichetti, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Divya Ravi, CCI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Chester Rebeiro, IIT Madras, India
• Amin Sakzad, Monash University, Australia
• Patrick Schaumont, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Dominique Schroeder, TU Wien, Austria
• Mark Simkin, Ethereum Foundation, Switzerland
• Nigel Smart, KU Leuven and Zama, Belgium
• Benjamin Smith, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Fang Song, Portland State University, USA
• Yifan Song, IIIS, Tsinghua, China
• Pante Stanica, Naval Postgrad Institute, USA
• Igors Stepanovs, Amazon, USA
• Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan, University of Sydney, Australia
• Ni Trieu, Arizona State University, USA
• Srinivas Vivek, IIIT-Bangalore, India
• Rupeng Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia

Contact Information

For questions specific to the CT-RSA track, contact the CT-RSA program chair Arpita Patra at ctrsa2025chair.csa@iisc.ac.in. For other questions about RSAC, consult the RSAC webpage.