ACNS is an annual
conference focusing on current
developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography,
cybersecurity (including network & computer security) and privacy.
The
goal is to represent
both academic research works as well as developments in industrial and
technical frontiers. ACNS receives strong support in the communities of
cryptography and
security, which is reflected from its organizers,
program committee, and very
competitive paper
acceptance rate. ACNS also organizes satellite workshops.
Each workshop provides a forum to address a specific topic
at
the forefront of cybersecurity research.
ACNS
gives
the Best Student Paper Award
(with 1500
EUR prize sponsored by Springer), to
encourage promising students to publish their best results at this
promising conference.
ACNS also gives the Best
Workshop Paper Award (with 500
EUR prize sponsored by Springer), to be selected from all the
satellite workshops, and the Best
Poster Award to be voted by all the participants. ACNS
will give the inaugural Test-of-Time
Award in 2025 to recognize papers that have had a lasting impact on
the field. Any person can nominate a paper published at ACNS between 2003 and 2010 for the award
in 2025. Self-nomination is also
allowed. The deadline for nominations is March 18, 2025. 
General Chairs
Omar Chowdhury (Stony Brook University, USA)
Nick Nikiforakis
(Stony Brook University, USA)
Program Chairs
Aniket
Kate (Purdue University, USA)
Kangkook Jee (UT Dallas, USA)
1st submission
deadline: Sept
2025 (AoE)
2nd submission deadline: Jan
2026 (AoE)
Paper submission:
Moti
Yung (Google, USA)
Jianying Zhou (SUTD, Singapore)
Average acceptance rate =
19.4%
Average number of attendees = 139
Venues:
Belgium
[2018], Canada
[2013],
China [2003, 2004, 2007, 2010],
Colombia [2019], France [2009], Germany
[2025], Japan [2017,
2021, 2023],
Italy [2020,
2022],
Singapore
[2006,
2012], Spain [2011],
Switzerland [2014], UAE
[2024], UK
[2016], USA [2005, 2008, 2015, 2026]
Program
Chairs: Michel Abdalla, Giuseppe Ateniese, Feng Bao, Lejla
Batina,
Steven Bellovin,
Mauro
Conti, Robert Deng, Marc Fischlin, Rosario
Gennaro, Dieter Gollmann, Markus
Jakobsson, Kangkook Jee (2026),
Aniket Kate (2026), Jonathan Katz, Angelos Keromytis,
Michael Locasto, Javier Lopez, Tal Malkin, Mark
Manulis, Atsuko Miyaji,
Veelasha Moonsamy,
Philippe Owezarski, David
Pointcheval,
Christina
Popper, Bart Preneel, Ahmad-Reza
Sadeghi, Rei
Safavi-Naini, Kazue
Sako, Pierangela
Samarati, Mehdi Tibouchi,
Nils
Ole Tippenhauer, Gene Tsudik, Serge Vaudenay, Daniele Venturi, Frederik Vercauteren,
Xiaofeng Wang, Moti
Yung, Jianying
Zhou
USA [8.5], France [8],
Germany
[3], China [2],
Austria
[1],
Denmark
[1], Israel
[1], Italy
[1], Netherlands [1],
Switzerland
[1], Taiwan [0.5]
USA [167],
China [85], Germany
[70], Japan [67],
France [59], Australia
[34], Singapore
[31], UK [30], Switzerland
[28],
Korea [23],
Canada
[20],
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3.
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Crypto
6.
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