CBCrypto 2026

[Michele Battagliola]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the 7th international workshop in code-based cryptography. The workshop takes place on the 9-10 of May at Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. This is an affiliated event with Eurocrypt 2026.

Code-based cryptography is the study of cryptographic systems whose security relies on hard coding-theoretic problems, pioneered by McEliece and Niederreiter almost fifty years ago. An important line of research within cryptography is focused on the design and analysis of schemes that will resist attacks from users equipped with sufficiently large and stable quantum computers, giving birth to the area known as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). In 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a vast effort to standardize PQC, with the goal of selecting new mechanisms for key transport (encryption schemes and KEMs) and authentication (digital signature schemes). Code-based cryptography has played a major role in this process, with the code-based protocol named HQC being selected as part of the first batch of standards; meanwhile, the process continues with the selection of additional designs for signature schemes, which again features multiple code-based submissions. CBCrypto 2026 aims to bring together the existing community as well as young (and older) researchers approaching this research area for the first time, informing researchers across the community about the newest results in the field, and fostering further collaborations.

The submission deadline for contributed talks is on March 15 and full papers may be submitted to the post-conference proceedings in Springer‘s Cryptography and Communication.

For more information please check our website: https://www.cb-crypto.org.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you in May!

Michele Battagliola (Marche Polytechnic University)

Alessio Meneghetti (University of Bari)