ASIACRYPT

ASIACRYPT
Name	ASIACRYPT
Status	Active
Discipline	Cryptography
Frequency	Annual
First	1990
Country	Various countries in Asia and Oceania
Organiser	International Association for Cryptologic Research

ASIACRYPT is an annual international conference focused on cryptography and information security hosted predominantly in Asia and nearby regions. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and students from institutions such as the University of Tokyo, Tsinghua University, National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Technology, KAIST, and Nanyang Technological University as well as representatives from organizations like NIST, IBM, Microsoft Research, Google Research, and Huawei. The conference forms part of the circuit with events such as CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, Real World Crypto Symposium, RSA Conference, and IEEE S&P.

History

ASIACRYPT originated in 1990 as part of the regional expansion of scholarly venues similar to CRYPTO and EUROCRYPT to serve researchers across Asia and the Pacific Islands. Early editions featured participants from institutions including Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Australian National University, and Seoul National University. Over time the venue rotated among cities such as Beijing, Singapore, Melbourne, Tokyo, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, and Taipei. Notable organizers and program committees have included faculty from Rutgers University, ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Princeton University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, and University College London. ASIACRYPT’s evolution paralleled growth in topics tied to protocols studied at venues like SIGCOMM, STOC, FOCS, SODA, and ICALP.

Scope and Topics

The conference covers a broad range of cryptographic areas including symmetric-key design discussed by experts from NIST, AES projects and researchers associated with DAE and GCM, public-key primitives studied in the context of RSA and ECC, and post-quantum schemes evaluated against standards such as those by NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization. Topics often intersect with work from IETF, ITU-T, 3GPP, and research groups at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. Research presented touches on provable-security frameworks influenced by Goldwasser–Micali, Boneh–Franklin, and Naor–Yung paradigms; applications in blockchain technologies intersecting with developments at Ethereum Foundation, Hyperledger, and Bitcoin; advances in zero-knowledge protocols connected to Zcash and zk-SNARKs; as well as lattice-based cryptography linked to the Learning with Errors problem and contributions from teams at Microsoft Research Redmond, D.E. Shaw, and IBM Research Zurich.

Conference Organization and Governance

ASIACRYPT is governed by program and general chairs drawn from universities such as University of Waterloo, McGill University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Yale University, Duke University, Brown University, University of Chicago, New York University, and University of Texas at Austin. The event follows peer-review practices similar to ACM SIGSAC and editorial standards akin to journals like Journal of Cryptology, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, and Designs, Codes and Cryptography. Sponsorship and partnerships often involve IACR, government labs like CSL (Chinese Academy of Sciences), industry partners such as Intel, Qualcomm, Amazon Web Services, and funding agencies including NSF, European Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Australian Research Council, and Department of Science and Technology (India). Organizational committees coordinate tutorials, workshops, and co-located events with groups like Women in CyberSecurity, ACM-W, IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative, and regional bodies such as Asia-Pacific Telecommunity.

Notable Papers and Contributions

ASIACRYPT has published influential work that shaped fields connected to protocols and primitives examined at CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, and TCC; examples include advances in lattice constructions building on results by Oded Regev and Chris Peikert, multiparty computation progress related to approaches by Andrew Yao, Yevgeniy Dodis, and Ran Canetti, and zero-knowledge innovations with connections to work by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Oded Goldreich. Papers presented have contributed to standards discussions involving IETF TLS, ISO/IEC JTC 1, and NIST PQC, and have influenced implementations in products from Cisco Systems, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare. Breakthroughs at ASIACRYPT intersect with theoretical advances recognized at Gödel Prize-level research and practical deployments seen in projects from Signal Foundation and OpenSSL development teams.

Awards and Recognition

ASIACRYPT honors authors and contributors through best paper awards and recognitions that parallel accolades given by IACR and major prizes awarded in computational fields like the Turing Award, Gödel Prize, and national science awards such as the Japan Prize and Shaw Prize. Recipients often include researchers affiliated with Princeton University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Michigan, Imperial College London, Peking University, Indian Statistical Institute, and Seoul National University. Lifetime achievement and service awards reflect contributions to communities linked to ACM, IEEE, IETF, and ISO technical committees.

Related Events and Collaborations

ASIACRYPT regularly coordinates workshops and satellite events with conferences and workshops such as Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), Cryptographic Protocols Workshop (PROTOCOLS), Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), AsiaCCS, NDSS Symposium, and EuroS&P. Collaborative efforts extend to academic consortia like Crypto 202x initiatives, regional educational programs at Asian Institute of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology, and governmental research programs at RIKEN, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and CSIRO.

Category:Cryptography conferences