The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2025) invites submissions of papers to its annual conference on historical cryptology. The conference will be held on June 16-18, 2025, at the Zamek Culture Centre in Poznań, Poland. 

SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

HistoCrypt addresses all aspects of historical cryptography and cryptanalysis. “History” is understood in the broadest sense and includes contemporary history. The conference’s subjects include, but are not limited to:

• the use of cryptography in the military, diplomacy, business, and other areas
• the use of automatic methods including AI in the field of historical cryptology
• unsolved historical cryptograms
• cipher machines
• the history of cryptology
• the roots of modern ciphers in historical cryptology
• linguistic aspects of cryptology
• the influence of cryptography on the course of history
• cryptology and its connections to neighbouring fields of study teaching and promoting cryptology in schools, universities, and the public

We welcome everybody interested in historical cryptology to participate in the event. We invite submissions to HistoCrypt for presentation at the conference, which will be evaluated by the program committee. Participation in the conference is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper.

We particularly encourage early-stage researchers (PhDs and postdocs) to submit their research.

SUBMISSIONS

 We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:

• regular papers up to 10 pages (excluding references) on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including evaluation results, where appropriate   
• short papers up to 4 pages (excluding references) on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, tutorials, or opinion pieces

Presentations of accepted papers can be either oral, poster, or demo. Authors can make suggestions as to the presentation format; final decisions will be taken by the program committee. Papers that meet the scientific standard set by the review process will be included in the HistoCrypt 2025 proceedings.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION

All submissions must follow the HistoCrypt 2025 style files, which will be available soon on the HistoCrypt 2025 website: https://histocrypt.org/instructions/  

There are styles for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions shall be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Submissions that violate the requirements will be returned without review.  Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through EasyChair. The submission will open on December 1 and close on January 31 [CET]. The link to the submission page will be published on the HistoCrypt 2025 website.   

SCHEDULE

• Submission opens:                      December 1, 2024
• Paper submission:                       January 31, 2025
• Notification of acceptance:           March 30, 2025
• Camera ready manuscripts:          April 30, 2025
• Main conference:                         June 16-18, 2025

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Reviewing of submissions and selection of the conference program will be managed by the HistoCrypt 2025 Program Committee. All submissions will receive at least two double-blind reviews by experts in the field.

• Eugen Antal (program chair), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Carola Dahlke (area chair), Deutsches Museum, Germany
• Benedek Láng (area chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Beáta Megyesi (area chair), Stockholm University, Sweden
• Michelle Waldispühl (area chair), University of Oslo, Norway

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Piotr Bojarski, Enigma Cipher Centre, Poland
• Marcin Słomiński, Enigma Cipher Centre, Poland

Detailed information about the conference will be available at the conference website: https://histocrypt.org/program/