【SAC 2026】May 11@Ottawa, Canada

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【SAC 2026】

Important dates

cycle 2

Paper submission: May 11, 2026
Notification: June 25, 2026
Conference: August 26-28, 2026
CCF: C

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash function, MAC algorithms, cryptographic permutations, and authenticated encryption schemes;
Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms;
Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology.
Lattice-based and code-based cryptography.

Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is Canada’s research conference on cryptography, held annually since 1994.

The 33rd edition of SAC will take place at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from August 26–28, 2026, and will be preceded by the SAC Summer School on August 24–25, 2026.

SAC 2026 will be co-located with the 23rd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST 2026).

Local Co-Chair

Andrej Bogdanov, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

External Co-Chair

Gaëtan Leurent, COSMIQ team, Inria, Paris, France

Program Committee

Aleksander Essex, Western University, Canada
Antonio Guimarães, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Ashwin Jha, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Augustin Bariant, ANSSI, France
Avijit Dutta, TCG CREST and AcSIR, India
Benjamin Wesolowski, CNRS and ENS de Lyon, France
Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa, Canada
Charlotte Lefevre, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Christina Boura, IRIF, Université Paris Cité, France
Clémence Bouvier, Inria Nancy, France
Corentin Jeudy, Orange Labs, France
Damien Ligier, DESILO, South Korea
Daniel Panario, Carleton University, Canada
David Jao, University of Waterloo, Canada
Douglas Stebila, University of Waterloo, Canada
Eran Lambooij, Inria Paris, France
Gaëtan Cassiers, CryptoExperts, France
Gustavo Banegas, Inria and Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Ecole polytechnique and Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Huapeng Wu, University of Windsor, Canada
Jipeng Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Joël Felderhoff, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Julian Nowakowski, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Kalikinkar Mandal, University of New Brunswick, Canada.
Kazuhiko Minematsu, NEC, Japan
Lewis Glabush, EPFL, Switzerland
Ling Song, Jinan University, China
Luca De Feo, IBM Research Europe, Switzerland
Maxime Bombar, University of Bordeaux, France
Mohammad Hajiabadi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mustafa Khairallah, Umeå University, Sweden
Neekon Vafa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Philippe Lamontagne, National Research Council Canada and Université de Montréal, Canada
Pierre Briaud, CNRS and University of Limoges, France
Rachelle Heim Boissier, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
Riham AlTawy, University of Victoria, Canada
Ruben Niederhagen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Sam Jaques, University of Waterloo, Canada
Shivam Bhasin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Siemen Dhooghe, Google, Belgium
Stjepan Picek, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Radboud University, The Netherlands
Svetla Nikova, KU Leuven, Belgium
Tamer Mour, Bocconi University, Italy
Tanja Lange, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Thomas Pornin, NCC Group, Canada
Tim Güneysu, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Xiao Liang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Zhenzhen Bao, Tsinghua University, China