MAgiCS 2026 – Workshop on Migration and Agility in Cryptographic Systems (co-located with EUROCRYPT 2026)
marc.stoettinger
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the MAgiCS 2026 Workshop on Migration and Agility in Cryptographic Systems, to be held at the Città Universitaria, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, co-located with EUROCRYPT 2026.
**IMPORTANT DATES**
- Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2026
- Camera-Ready Deadline: March 29, 2026
- Workshop Date: May 10, 2026
**PROCEEDINGS**
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) volume.
**TOPICS OF INTEREST**
Submissions are solicited on topics including, but not limited to:
- Methodologies and concepts supporting crypto-agility
- Maturity models for cryptographic agility
- Software tooling for cryptographic migration and agility
- Hardware accelerator design for classical and post-quantum cryptography
- Protocol design enabling cryptographic agility
- Fail-safe and resilient protocols for agile cryptographic systems
- Cryptographic migration models and processes
- Key management, replacement, and lifecycle protocols
- Formal models and verification of migration and agility
- Hybrid solutions (classical + PQC, multiple PQC schemes, QKD + PQC)
- Secure legacy support and transition strategies
- Attacks on hybrid or agile cryptographic schemes
- Identification and analysis of legacy cryptography in deployed systems
For further information and updates, please visit:
https://magics-workshop.cs.hs-rm.de/
We look forward to your submissions and to lively discussions at MAgiCS 2026 in Rome!
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Marc and Daniel
marc.stoettinger
Dear all,
we would like to invite you to MAgiCS26, the Workshop on Migration and Agility in Cryptographic Systems. The workshop takes place on 10 May 2026 at the Città Universitaria of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, as an affiliated event of Eurocrypt 2026. Registration is handled via the Eurocrypt 2026 registration page, and we encourage you to register early.
Cryptographic migration, particularly in the post-quantum setting, is a challenging and largely unsolved task in practice. It sits at the intersection of applied IT and cryptographic engineering, and addresses two fundamentally different audiences: practitioners operating real-world data centers and cryptographic engineers designing and implementing cryptographic systems. While numerous post-quantum migration projects are underway worldwide, there is comparatively little research on the general structure of such migrations and on how to suitably model cryptographic migration and agility. MAgiCS26 aims to serve as an international nucleus for the research community working on formalisms, methodologies, tooling, and protocols for cryptographic migration and agility – including topics such as maturity models, hybrid solutions (classical + PQC, multiple PQC schemes, QKD + PQC), CBOMs, key lifecycle management, formal verification, and secure legacy support.
We are excited to announce our keynote speaker:
* Axel Poschmann: "Designing a Post-Quantum Root of Trust: The Hardest Migration Problem You're Not Aware of"
The technical program further features ten contributed talks organized in sessions on CBOMs, Migration, Benchmarking, and Agility, covering topics from formal models of cryptographic migration, PQC migration frameworks, and IT infrastructure digital twins, to ML-DSA benchmarking, post-quantum blockchains, and agile API design.
For the full program, the list of accepted papers, and further information, please visit our website: https://magics-workshop.cs.hs-rm.de
We look forward to seeing you in Rome!
Best regards,
The MAgiCS26 Organizers
Marc and Daniel