ITC’26 - call for paper is out
Benny Applebaum
Dear all,
We are happy to announce this year’s Information-Theoretic Cryptography Conference (ITC 2026), its seventh edition, which will be held the weekend before Crypto 2026 in Santa Barbara on Saturday and Sunday, August 15-16 2026.
This year will feature a premier lineup of invited talks: confirmed speakers so far include Dan Boneh, Venkatesan Guruswami and Daniel Wichs. As an exciting addition to the conference, a subset of papers published in the LIPIcs proceedings will be invited to submit to the Journal of Cryptology.
Since being revived in 2020, ITC has consistently had a strong program committee and fantastic invited speakers, and has been well-attended by members of the cryptographic theory community. This combination of several invited/spotlight talks, in addition to standard contributed talks, has contributed to building a great conference atmosphere in the past. Starting last year, the conference has been co-located with Crypto, and we hope this makes the conference even more attractive to attend.
Submission deadline: March 12 AoE
Paper decision: May 8 (before the TCC deadline on May 13!)
Program chair: Yevgeniy Dodis
Local organizing chairs: Prabhanjan Ananth, Daniel Collins and Eli Goldin
Call for papers: https://itcrypto.github.io/2026/2026cfp.html
Information-theoretic cryptography deals with the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and primitives with unconditional security guarantees and the usage of information-theoretic tools and techniques in achieving other forms of security.
The conference takes a broad interpretation of this theme and encourages submissions from different communities (cryptography, information theory, coding theory, theory of computation) that have *some* components of security and information theory.
Please submit your best work!!!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Yevgeniy Dodis (program chair)
Prabhanjan Ananth, Daniel Collins and Eli Goldin (local organizing chairs)