PKC 2025: Call for Papers

The International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC) 2025 will take place in Røros, Norway, on May 12-15, 2025. The conference is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and NTNU. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

General Information

Original research papers on all aspects of public-key cryptography, covering theory, implementations, and applications, and related fields, are solicited for submission to PKC 2025. This year, the conference particularly welcomes submissions on the theme of “Real-world public-key cryptography.”

Areas of interest include research on:

• Public key schemes, such as their design and analysis (including side channel attacks), from its math to actual systems.
• The design, proposal, and analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols.
• Public-key techniques in MPC or other protocols.

Please note that pure information-theoretic and symmetric-key subjects, e.g., block cipher design and attacks, are not in scope.

Program committee members are permitted to submit either 3 co-authored papers, or at most 4 co-authored papers all with students.

Submission

Author instructions for paper submission may be found on the submission page.

• Submit a paper

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: Oct 16, 2024 (11:59pm AoE)
• First round notification: Dec 11, 2024
• Rebuttal deadline: Dec 18, 2024
• Final notification: Feb 5, 2025
• Final versions due: Feb 26, 2025
• Conference begins: May 12, 2025

Further details are available on the paper submission page.

Review Process

PKC 2025 will operate a two-round review system with a rebuttal phase. In the first round, the program committee selects submissions for the second round and provides review comments. Authors of selected submissions can submit a text-based rebuttal letter. In the second round, the program committee further reviews selected submissions considering the rebuttal letters to make final acceptance or rejection decisions. Submissions not selected in the first round may be submitted to other conferences after the first round notification date.

Awards

The Program Committee may choose a paper for an overall best paper award. To promote independent work by early-career researchers, the Program Committee may also award a prize for the best paper authored exclusively by early-career researchers. Eligibility requires all co-authors to be studying full/part-time or to have received their degree in 2019 or later. Awards are given only if deserving papers are identified.

Stipends

Students whose papers are accepted and who present their talks at the conference will have their registration waived. A limited number of stipends are available for those unable to obtain funding. Students presenting their own papers are encouraged to apply if needed. Requests for stipends should be sent to the general chair.

Program Committee

• Navid Alamati, VISA Research
• Nuttapong Attrapadung, AIST
• Benedikt Auerbach, PQShield
• Shi Bai, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Mihir Bellare, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Olivier Blazy, Ecole Polytechnique
• Wouter Castryck, KU Leuven
• Sofía Celi, Brave
• Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research, USA
• Rongmao Chen, National University of Defense Technology
• Yu Chen, Shandong University
• Liqun Chen, University of Surrey
• Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Daniel Collins, Purdue University, USA
• Gareth T. Davies, NXP Semiconductors, Belgium
• Hannah Davis, Seagate Technology
• Thomas Debris-Alazard, Inria and Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’École Polytechnique (LIX)
• Benjamin Dowling, King's College London
• Rafael Dowsley, Monash University, Australia
• Léo Ducas, CWI Amsterdam and Leiden University, NL
• Nico Döttling, Cispa Helmholtz Center (i.G.)
• Nils Fleischhacker, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• Steven D. Galbraith, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Kristian Gjøsteen, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Aurore Guillevic, Centre Inria de l’Université de Rennes
• Fuchun Guo, University of Wollongong
• Shuai Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Lucjan Hanzlik, CISPA
• Hans Heum, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Kathrin Hövelmanns, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Miran Kim, Hanyang University
• Lisa Kohl, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
• Veronika Kuchta, Florida Atlantic University
• Sabrina Kunzweiler, Inria and IMB, France
• Péter Kutas, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and University of Birmingham, UK
• Russell W. F. Lai, Aalto University, Finland
• Tanja Lange, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Xiangyu Liu, Purdue University and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Eleftheria Makri, LIACS, Leiden University, the Netherlands
• Mark Manulis, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
• Varun Maram, SandboxAQ, UK
• Alexander May, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• Adam O'Neill, UMass Amherst, USA
• Miyako Ohkubo, NICT
• Cristina Onete, Université de Limoges, France
• Claudio Orlandi, Aarhus University
• Omkant Pandey, Stony Brook University
• Krzysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
• Bertram Poettering, IBM Research Europe – Zurich
• Sebastian Ramacher, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
• Doreen Riepel, UC San Diego
• Guilherme Rito, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Andy Rupp, University of Luxembourg and KASTEL SRL
• Paul Rösler, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Amin Sakzad, Monash University
• Dominique Schröder, TU Wien
• Jacob C. N. Schuldt, AIST, Japan
• Rebecca Schwerdt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Sven Schäge, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Yannick Seurin, Ledger, France
• Daniel Slamanig, Universität der Bundeswehr München
• Yongsoo Song, Seoul National University (South Korea)
• Vanessa Teague, Thinking Cybersecurity Pty Ltd, Democracy Developers Ltd, and the Australian National University
• Stefano Tessaro, University of Washington
• Daniele Venturi, Sapienza University of Rome
• Benedikt Wagner, Ethereum Foundation
• Weiqiang Wen, Telecom Paris (France)
• Thom Wiggers, PQShield
• David Wu, UT Austin
• Keita Xagawa, Technology Innovation Institute
• Yu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Runzhi Zeng, University of Kassel, Germany

Area Chairs

• Stefano Tessaro, Advanced PKE
• Alexander May, Mathematics of Public-Key Crypto
• Claudio Orlandi, MPC and Friends
• Mihir Bellare, (Real-World) Primitives and Protocols
• Miyako Ohkubo, Advanced Signatures and Proof Systems

Program Co-chairs

• Tibor Jager, University of Wuppertal, Germany
• Jiaxin Pan, University of Kassel, Germany
• Email: pkc2025programchairs@iacr.org

General Co-chairs

• Bor de Kock, TNO, The Netherlands
• Tjerand Silde, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• Email: pkc2025@iacr.org