WAHC Deadline Reminder - July 19, 2026 - The Hague, Netherlands

[Homomorphic Encryption]

We are sending this reminder about the pending July 19 2026 deadline for our community's primary dedicated research workshop, WAHC. 

Submissions are open and welcome through HotCRP: https://wahc26.hotcrp.com/

WAHC was again accepted again as a CCS-affiliated workshop, now located in The Hague, Netherlands - Nov. 19, 2026. We're especially excited to be back in Europe.  For the latest edition of WAHC in 2026, we especially invite papers that are related to applications for FHE. For example, we would encourage papers that focus on, for example, real-world deployments of FHE, real-world applications enabled by compilers, hardware implementations of FHE schemes, software engineering to deploy FHE. We of course also welcome any and all papers relevant to applications of FHE and FHE topics in general.

We have set our tentative paper submission and review schedule as follows:

• Submission Deadline: July 19, 2026
• Acceptance Notification: TBA
• Workshop: November 19, 2026. (ACM CCS Post-Conference Workshop)

Our workshop website is here: https://homomorphicencryption.org/wahc-2026-14th-workshop-on-encrypted-computing-applied-homomorphic-cryptography/

We will accept for review both full papers (12 pages) and brief demo papers (6 pages.)  The workshop proceedings will be published as a part of the ACM CCS 2026 proceedings.

Submissions are open and welcome through HotCRP: https://wahc26.hotcrp.com/

Submissions must be single PDF files, in double-column ACM format (the sigconf template from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, with a simpler version at https://github.com/acmccs/format), including references and appendices.  Submission information will be maintained on the workshop website:   https://homomorphicencryption.org/wahc-2026-14th-workshop-on-encrypted-computing-applied-homomorphic-cryptography/

Registration for the workshop is through the CCS website (https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2026/index.html)

Kindly email if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Flavio and Kurt