TCC 2025: Call for Papers

General Information

TCC 2025 will take place in Aarhus, Denmark on December 1-5, 2025. TCC 2025 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Papers presenting original research on foundational and theoretical aspects of cryptography are sought.

For more information about TCC, see the TCC manifesto.

The conference is planned to be an in-person meeting. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to present the paper in person at the conference, unless there are extenuating circumstances approved by the chairs.

How to Submit

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

Submit a paper

The Theory of Cryptography Conference deals with the paradigms, approaches, and techniques used to conceptualize natural cryptographic problems and provide algorithmic solutions to them. More specifically, the scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the:

• study of known paradigms, approaches, and techniques, directed towards their better understanding and utilization
• discovery of new paradigms, approaches and techniques that overcome limitations of the existing ones
• formulation and treatment of new cryptographic problems
• study of notions of security and relations among them
• modeling and analysis of cryptographic algorithms
• study of the complexity assumptions used in cryptography

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: May 27, 2025, 23:59 anywhere on earth (AoE)
• Final notification: Aug 28, 2025
• Final versions due: Sep 25, 2025
• Conference begins: Dec 1, 2025

Further details are available on the paper submission page.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The online version will be available to all conference attendees. Physical books will be available after the conference for a separate fee. Instructions for preparing the final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on the final version deadline listed. This is a strict deadline, and authors should prepare accordingly.

Awards

• Luca Trevisan Young Researcher Award: This prize is for the best paper authored solely by young researchers, where a young researcher is a person that at the time of the paper's submission is at most two years past their graduation from a PhD program. Eligibility must be indicated at the time of submission, using a checkbox in the submission form. The program committee may decline to make the award, or may split it among several papers.
• Outstanding Paper Award: The program committee may choose one or more papers to receive an Outstanding Paper Award, recognizing outstanding contributions.

Program Committee

• Divesh Aggarwal (National University of Singapore)
• Prabhanjan Ananth (University of California Santa Barbara)
• Marshall Ball (New York University)
• James Bartusek (New York University)
• Andrej Bogdanov (University of Ottawa)
• Ran Canetti (Boston University)
• Kai-Min Chung (Academia Sinica)
• Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University)
• Nico Döttling (Cispa Helmholtz Center (i.G.))
• Cody Freitag (Northeastern University)
• Aarushi Goel (Purdue University)
• Shai Halevi (AWS)
• Aayush Jain (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Abhishek Jain (NTT Research & Johns Hopkins University)
• Zhengzhong Jin (Northeastern University)
• Daniel Jost (New York University)
• Wei-Kai Lin (University of Virginia)
• Ji Luo (Boston University)
• Hemanta K. Maji (Purdue University)
• Peihan Miao (Brown University)
• Tomoyuki Morimae (Kyoto University)
• Varun Narayanan (University of California Los Angeles)
• Ryo Nishimaki (NTT Social Informatics Labs)
• Eran Omri (Ariel University)
• Alexander Poremba (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Leonid Reyzin (Boston University)
• João Ribeiro (University of Lisbon)
• Lior Rotem (Stanford University)
• Guy N. Rothblum (Apple)
• Luisa Siniscalchi (Technical University of Denmark)
• Yifan Song (Tsinghua University)
• Katerina Sotiraki (Yale University)
• Akshayaram Srinivasan (University of Toronto)
• Prashant N. Vasudevan (National University of Singapore)
• Brent Waters (NTT Research & University of Texas at Austin)
• Hoeteck Wee (NTT Research & École Normale Supérieure)
• Shota Yamada (AIST)
• Takashi Yamakawa (NTT Social Informatics Labs & Kyoto University)
• Vassilis Zikas (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Program Co-chairs

• Benny Applebaum (Tel-Aviv University)
• Rachel Lin (University of Washington)
• Contact: TCC2025programchairs@iacr.org

General Co-chairs

• Claudio Orlandi (Aarhus University)
• Sophia Yakoubov (Aarhus University)
• Peter Scholl (Aarhus University)
• Contact: TCC2025@iacr.org