IACR Conference on Advances in Cryptology

IACR Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Name	IACR Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Status	active
Genre	Academic conference
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Various
Location	Various
Country	Various
First	1981
Organizer	International Association for Cryptologic Research

IACR Conference on Advances in Cryptology

The IACR Conference on Advances in Cryptology is an annual scholarly meeting that gathers researchers from institutions such as Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, and ETH Zurich alongside practitioners from IBM, Microsoft Research, Google, Intel Corporation, and Amazon. The conference attracts contributors associated with awards like the Turing Award, Gödel Prize, Knuth Prize, Gödel Prize laureates, and memberships in academies including the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. It interfaces with venues linked to RSA Conference, Black Hat, DEF CON, Usenix Security Symposium, and SIGCOMM.

Overview

The conference, organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research in collaboration with universities such as Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and Cornell University and labs such as Bell Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Google Research, IBM Research Zurich, and Nokia Bell Labs, provides a forum for exchanges among authors affiliated with Cryptographica, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, FSE Workshop, Crypto Forum Research Group and for interaction with standards bodies like Internet Engineering Task Force, European Telecommunications Standards Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, and IETF. Panels often include speakers from Apple Inc., Facebook (Meta), Twitter (X), Cisco Systems, and Oracle Corporation.

History and Development

The conference traces roots to early meetings involving researchers from Bell Labs, MITRE Corporation, RAND Corporation, University of California, Los Angeles, and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and evolved through interactions with events such as TCC (Theory of Cryptography Conference), Foundations of Computer Science, Symposium on Theory of Computing, International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, and workshops hosted by CNRS, Max Planck Society, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, RIKEN, and Keio University. Foundational contributors have included scholars associated with Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford University, École Normale Supérieure, and University of Tokyo and figures who later joined bodies like European Research Council and Simons Foundation.

Scope and Topics

Typical topics span areas studied by groups at University of Waterloo, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Ruhr University Bochum, University of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and University of Edinburgh and intersect with themes from projects funded by European Commission, DARPA, NSF, EPSRC, and JSPS. Subjects presented include work on primitives examined by researchers at Courant Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Bristol, Polytechnic University of Milan, University of São Paulo, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Seoul National University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Specific areas include proposals reviewed alongside committees from IETF Working Group, ITU-T, 3GPP, IEEE 802, and W3C.

Conference Organization and Sponsorship

Organization commonly involves program committees drawn from faculty at Delft University of Technology, University of Vienna, University of Amsterdam, University of Oslo, Stockholm University, University of Helsinki, and University of Copenhagen and industrial representatives from Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, ARM Holdings, Broadcom, SAP SE, Siemens, and Hitachi. Sponsors have included funding agencies such as Wellcome Trust, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and corporations including Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Adobe Systems, VMware, Palantir Technologies, and Huawei Technologies.

Proceedings and Publications

Proceedings are published in outlets that collaborate with publishers like Springer, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, Elsevier, and Oxford University Press and are indexed alongside records in DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and arXiv. Authors often cross-post preprints from Cornell University Library to arXiv and later submit final versions to repositories maintained by IACR ePrint Archive and institutional repositories at MIT Libraries, Stanford Libraries, Harvard Library, British Library, and Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Notable Papers and Contributions

Landmark contributions presented at the conference include advances by teams affiliated with Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft Research, Google Research, RSA Security, Netscape Communications Corporation, SUN Microsystems, Intel Labs, NIST, NSA, GCHQ, MI5, and academic groups from University College London, King's College London, New York University, Brown University, Duke University, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Rice University, Vanderbilt University, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Purdue University, Iowa State University, University of Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Southern California, and California Institute of Technology. Innovations have influenced standards like Advanced Encryption Standard, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, SHA-2, SHA-3, TLS, IPsec, OAuth, OpenID, PGP, S/MIME, Kerberos, and protocols adopted by Visa, Mastercard, SWIFT, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.

Awards and Recognition

The conference bestows honors and sees participants who have received prizes such as the Turing Award, Gödel Prize, ACM Prize in Computing, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Royal Society Milner Award, Royal Medal, Marconi Prize, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, Wolf Prize, Breakthrough Prize, Kyoto Prize, and fellowships from Royal Society, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Instituto de Empresa, and Academia Europaea.

Category:Cryptography conferences