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SCN 2026

Fifteenth International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks

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 The primary focus is on original, high quality, unpublished research of theoretical and practical impact, including concepts, techniques, applications and practical experiences.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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