Asiacrypt 2026 affiliated workshop
Call for Presentations
WPPT 2026 invites presentations on privacy-preserving technologies, from theory to deployment. We welcome submissions describing recent publications, ongoing work, systematization efforts, attacks and measurement studies, and lessons from deployment.
Dates
| Abstract submission deadline | Friday, 25 September 2026, 23:59:59 (AoE)† |
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| Notification | Friday, 23 October 2026, 23:59:59 (AoE)† |
| Program online | 10–20 November 2026* |
| Workshop | 7–11 December 2026* |
* Subject to final confirmation by the Asiacrypt 2026 organizers.
† AoE: Anywhere on Earth (UTC−12)
Format
The workshop features keynote talks and contributed presentations.
To give a contributed presentation, submit an abstract of the work to be presented by the deadline. If it is accepted, at least one author must register and present in person on the event date.
There are no proceedings, and presenting at the workshop does not restrict future publication elsewhere.
Topics
Five families, from cryptographic foundations to deployment. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Foundations of privacy
7 topics
- Cryptographic primitives and their post-quantum instantiations, such as:
- (Group and ring) signatures
- (Homomorphic) encryption
- Secure multi-party computation
- Zero-knowledge proofs
- Threshold cryptography
- Differential privacy and private data analysis
- Trusted execution environments and hardware enclaves
Blockchain and decentralized-system privacy
6 topics
- Private transfers, stealth addresses, and zkEVMs with privacy
- Confidential smart contracts and private computation over public state
- Encrypted mempools and mitigations for transaction-ordering attacks
- Secure key management and wallet-level privacy
- Private information retrieval and oblivious data access for light clients
- On-chain privacy with accountability, auditability, and compliance
Communication, identity, and participation
3 topics
- Protocols for secure, anonymous, and censorship-resistant communication
- Anonymous credentials and privacy-preserving identity
- Private voting and governance mechanisms
Application-domain privacy
4 topics
- Privacy of cloud computing
- Privacy of machine learning
- Privacy of social networks and online messaging
- Privacy of web and browsers
Privacy in practice
5 topics
- Attacks on privacy: deanonymization, information leakage, data correlation, etc.
- Implementation, optimization, and deployment of privacy-preserving systems
- Formal models, security analysis, and empirical measurement of deployed privacy protocols
- User experience research for privacy-enabling applications
- Privacy laws and regulations
Submission
Submissions should include:
- Submission title
- Name, affiliation, and email of every author
- Expected presenter, with a short biography
- Publication status
- Abstract of the work to be presented, in PDF, up to three pages excluding references
- Optional supplementary material: slides, a published paper, or a work-in-progress summary
Reviewing is single-blind, so author names are visible to the reviewers. Each submission is assessed for its relevance, quality, and interest to the workshop audience.
As with other IACR-affiliated events, authors are expected to follow the Asiacrypt 2026 policy on the use of AI tools.