CFP

Africacrypt 2026: Africacrypt 2026

Hammamet, Tunisia, July 8-10, 2026

Conference website	https://www.africacrypt2026.tn/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=africacrypt2026
Submission deadline	March 1, 2026

Topics: cryptography cryptanalysis implementation

AfricaCrypt is an annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology. AfricaCrypt is a major scientific event that seeks to advance and promote the field of cryptology on the African continent. The conference has systematically drawn some excellent contributions to the field, and has seen many renown researchers deliver keynote presentations. The conference has always been organized in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. More information regarding the submission can be found here.

The 17th international conference on Cryptology Africacrypt 2026 will take place on July 8-10, 2026 in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Call For Papers

The university of Tunis El Manar and the Tunisian Mathematical Society organize Africacrypt 2026 in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. The program committee is seeking original research papers, systematization of knowledge (SOK) papers as well as tutorials, on topics, including but not limited to the following list:

Public-key cryptography:
- key establishment,
- entity authentication protocols,
- digital signatures,
- discrete logarithm-based cryptography including ECC, pairings,
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
  - Latice-based Cryptography
  - Codes-based Cryptography
  - Isogeny-based cryptography
  - …
Symmetric cryptography:
- authenticated encryption,
- hashing,
- message authentication,
- Design and cryptanalysis of primitives: block ciphers, permutations, stream ciphers, extendable output functions (XOF), deck functions, Security proofs of modes and constructions.
Cryptographic engineering:
- dedicated hardware implementations,
- software implementations and benchmarking,
- implementation attacks and countermeasures: side channel and fault injection attacks formal verification of implementations, artificial intelligence for cryptanalysis.
Advanced cryptographic protocols:
- fully homomorphic encryption,
- multi-party computation,
- attribute-based encryption and authentication,
- pairing-based crypto.
Applications of cryptography:
- electronic voting,
- cryptocurrency,
- blockchain,
- privacy and anonymity

Importante Dates

Submission deadline is at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Paper submission deadline : March 1, 2026
Paper acceptance notification : April 20, 2026
Camera-ready version : May 1, 2026
Conference : July 08-10, 2026

Instructions for authors

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, anonymous, and not submitted to journals or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Submissions must be written in English and should be at most 25 pages in total including bibliography and appendices. Submissions will be blind-refereed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference, and must make a full version of their paper available online.

Authors shall consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, for LaTeX, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form.