Fifteenth International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks

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SCN 2026

September 14-16, 2026, Amalfi (SA), Italy

https://scn.unisa.it/

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SCOPE

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The Fifteenth International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2026) aims to bring together researchers in the field of cryptography and information security, practitioners, developers, and users to foster cooperation, exchange techniques, tools, experiences and ideas. The conference seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research on all practical and theoretical aspects of cryptography and information security. The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research of theoretical and practical impact, including concepts, techniques, applications and practical experiences. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings.

TOPICS

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All topic areas related to cryptography and information security are of interest and in scope. Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

Anonymity and Privacy

Applied Cryptography and Implementations

Authentication, Identification and Access Control

Block and Stream Ciphers

Complexity-Theoretic Cryptography

Cryptanalysis

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Cryptographic Hash Functions

Cryptographic Protocols

Digital Signatures and Message Authentication Codes

Distributed Systems Security

Elliptic-Curve Cryptography

Formal Security Methods

Information-Theoretic Security

Post-quantum Cryptography

Public-Key Encryption

Physical Cryptography

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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Authors are invited to submit electronically (PDF format) a non-anonymous extended abstract using Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scn2026

Authors should follow the minimum standards as set out in Springer’s the Book Authors’ Code of Conduct. We strongly encourage to typeset the extended abstract using Springer’s LNCS LaTeX package with no changes to the style. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in the final published versions of their papers. See Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science instructions for authors.

The submission should begin with a title, followed by the names, affiliations and contact information of all authors, and a short abstract. The length of the submission should be at most 20 pages, including bibliography but excluding clearly marked appendices. Within these 20 pages, the submission should clearly indicate the results achieved, their significance, and their relation to other work in the area. Referees are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that was published elsewhere, or work that any of the authors has submitted in parallel to a journal or to any other conference or workshop with proceedings.

Submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. All submissions will be treated as confidential, and will only be disclosed to the committee and their chosen sub-referees.

PARTICIPATION

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Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

DATES AND DEADLINES

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Submission: February 28, 2026, 23:59 AoE

Notification to authors: April 28, 2026

Camera-Ready Version: May 15, 2026

Author/Early Registration: May 15, 2026

Conference: September 14-16, 2026

ORGANIZERS

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– Program Chair

Luisa Siniscalchi, Technical University of Denmark

– Program Committee (partial list)

Masayuki Abe, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, Japan

Amit Agarwal, Category Labs, USA

Gorjan Alagic, University of Maryland, USA

Prabhanjan Ananth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Elena Andreeva, TU Wien, Austria

Christian Badertscher, IOG and Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Christina Boura, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), France

Pedro Branco, IE University, Spain

Ignacio Cascudo, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain

Michele Ciampi, University of Edinburgh, UK

Ran Cohen, Reichman University, Israel

Anamaria Costache, École Polytechnique, France

Elizabeth Crites, Web3 Foundation, USA

Ivan Damgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark

Bernardo David, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Chaya Ganesh, IISc, Bangalore, India

Lorenzo Grassi, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands

Lucjan Hanzlik, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany

Stanislaw Jarecki, University of California, Irvine, USA

Susumu Kiyoshima, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, Japan

Lisa Kohl, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Yashvanth Kondi, Silence Laboratories, USA

Eysa Lee, Barnard College, USA

Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, King’s College London, UK

Emmanuela Orsini, Bocconi University, Italy

Omkant Pandey, Stony Brook University, USA

Divya Ravi, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paolo Santini, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Yannick Seurin, Ledger, USA

Fang Song, Portland State University, USA

Daniele Venturi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Ivan Visconti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Kevin Yeo, Google, USA

Vassilis Zikas, Georgia Tech, USA

– General Chair

Clemente Galdi, University of Salerno

– Local Organization

Luigi Catuogno, University of Salerno, Italy

Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy

Antonella Pascuzzo, University of Salerno, Italy

– Steering Committee

Carlo Blundo, Università di Salerno, Italy

Alfredo De Santis, Università di Salerno, Italy

Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Rafail Ostrovsky, University of California – Los Angeles, USA

Giuseppe Persiano, Università di Salerno, Italy

Jacques Stern, ENS Paris, France

Gene Tsudik, University of California – Irvine, USA

Moti Yung, Google, USA

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