ACNS 2026: Program

Conference Program

ACNS 2026 will be held June 22–25, 2026 at Stony Brook University. The program features 59 papers across 11 sessions and 3 keynote sessions, plus a poster & networking session. Standard paper presentations are 15 minutes each.

Day 1 — Monday, June 22

Opening · Keynote · Post-Quantum Cryptography · Cryptographic Primitives

08:45–09:00	Opening Ceremony — General Chairs & PC Chairs
09:00–10:30	Session 1: Post-Quantum Cryptography
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–12:30	Session 2: Cryptographic Primitives and Proof Systems I
12:30–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:20	Keynote Session 1: Elaine Shi (CMU)
15:20–17:30	Coffee Break / Poster & Networking Session

Keynote Session 1

Elaine Shi — Carnegie Mellon University

14:00–15:20

Session 1 — Post-Quantum Cryptography

09:00–10:30 · 6 papers · 15 min each

1	Efficient Post-Quantum EPID Signatures From VOLE-in-the-Head Zuming Liu, Deng Tang, Yanhong Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
2	The Best of Both KEMs: Securely Combining KEMs in Post-Quantum Hybrid Schemes Gorjan Alagic (University of Maryland and NIST), Fahran Bajaj, Aybars Kocoglu (University of Maryland)
3	Towards More Efficient Registration-Based Encryption from LWE Toi Tomita (Yokohama National University)
4	Dynamic Puncturable Encryption Priyanka Dutta, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, Dung Hoang Duong (University of Wollongong)
5	A Post Quantum Vector Commitment Scheme with Efficient Insertions and Deletions Vir Pathak (Stony Brook University), Sushmita Ruj (UNSW Sydney)
6	(Partially) Blind Signatures from Cryptographic Group Actions Dung Duong, Xuan Thanh Khuc, Willy Susilo (University of Wollongong), Youming Qiao (University of New South Wales), Chuanqi Zhang (University of Technology Sydney)

Session 2 — Cryptographic Primitives and Proof Systems I

11:00–12:30 · 6 papers · 15 min each

7	Tight Multi-User Security of CCM and Enhancement by Tag-Based Key Derivation Applied to GCM and CCM Yusuke Naito (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), Yu Sasaki (NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, NIST Associate), Takeshi Sugawara (The University of Electro-Communications)
8	FlexProofs: A Vector Commitment with Flexible Linear Time for Computing All Proofs Jing Liu, Liang Feng Zhang (ShanghaiTech University)
9	Faster Signature Verification with 3-Dimensional Decomposition Vojtech Suchanek, Marek Sýs, Lukasz Chmielewski (Masaryk University)
10	Efficient Sum-Check for High-Degree Polynomials Yu Wang, Yuncong Zhang, Yu Chen (Shandong University)
11	Practical Subvector Commitments with Optimal Opening Complexity Matteo Campanelli (Offchain Labs and University of Tartu)
12	The Cost of Fluidity: Communication Complexity Trade-offs in Fluid MPC Shancheng Zhang, Zongyang Zhang (Beihang University), Bernardo Magri (The University of Manchester)

Poster & Networking Session — 15:20–17:30, during the afternoon coffee break and networking block.

Day 2 — Tuesday, June 23

Keynote · Privacy · Blockchain · AI and ML Security · Social Dinner

09:00–10:20	Keynote Session 2: Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell Tech)
10:20–10:50	Coffee Break
11:10–12:40	Session 3: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies I
12:40–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:30	Session 4: Blockchain and Decentralized Security
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00–17:30	Session 5: AI and ML Security I
Evening	ACNS Social Dinner (time TBA)

Keynote Session 2

Vitaly Shmatikov — Cornell Tech

09:00–10:20

Session 3 — Privacy-Enhancing Technologies I

11:10–12:40 · 6 papers · 15 min each

13	TAPIR: A Two-Server Authenticated PIR Scheme with Preprocessing Francesca Falzon, Laura Hetz, Annamira O'Toole (ETH Zurich / EPFL)
14	BI-ORAM: An Oblivious Bulk-Insertion Log Table Zhiqiang Wu, Jun Liu (Changsha University of Science & Technology)
15	Automatic Teller Machines for Offline Ecash Anrin Chakraborti (University of Illinois at Chicago), Qingzhao Zhang (University of Arizona), Jingjia Peng, Morley Mao (University of Michigan), Michael K. Reiter (Duke University)
16	NEPAL: Climbing Beyond the Limits of Graph Matching Attacks in Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Marcel Mildenberger, Jochen Schäfer, Frederik Armknecht (University of Mannheim)
17	Towards Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning using Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption Ivan Costa, Eva Maia (GECAD), Pedro Correia (FEUP), Ivone Amorim, Isabel Praça (ISEP)
18	FedFDP: Fairness-Aware Federated Learning with Differential Privacy Xinpeng Ling, Huifa Li, Tong Cheng, Zhili Chen (East China Normal University), Jie Fu (Stevens Institute of Technology), Kuncan Wang (Nanyang Technological University)

Session 4 — Blockchain and Decentralized Security

14:00–15:30 · 6 papers · 15 min each

19	Stealth and Beyond: Attribute-Driven Accountability in Bitcoin Transactions Alberto Maria Mongardini, Daniele Friolo (Sapienza University of Rome), Giuseppe Ateniese (George Mason University)
20	OptiBridge: A Trustless, Cost-Efficient Bridge Between the Lightning Network and Ethereum Mohsen Minaei, Duc Le (Visa Research), Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute / MPI-SP)
21	$2B Lessons: Brigade as a Defense Against Real-World DeFi Bridge Exploits Pascal Winkler, Jens-Rene Giesen, Oussama Draissi, Lucas Davi (University of Duisburg-Essen), Federico Badaloni, Sebastian Holler, Clara Schneidewind (MPI-SP)
22	Visibility-Aware GHOST: Mitigating Visibility Asymmetry in Subtree-Based Proof-of-Work Consensus Abdulwahab Almusailem, Othman Alenezi, Ameer Mohammed (Kuwait University)
23	Crypto-Asset Collateralised Loans in Open Finance via Robust Fully Homomorphic Encryption Lorenzo Martinico, Raffaella Calabrese, Michele Ciampi (University of Edinburgh), Tzameret Rubin (Oxford Brookes)
24	X-CHAIN: Enhancing Electronic Supply Chain Security with 3D X-ray Inspection and Blockchain Integration Tishya Sarma Sarkar, Chandan Kumar, Abhishek Chakraborty, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur)

Session 5 — AI and ML Security I

16:00–17:30 · 6 papers · 15 min each

25	SoK: A Taxonomy of Attacks and Defenses in Split Learning Aqsa Shabbir, Sinem Sav (Bilkent University), Halil Ibrahim Kanpak, Alptekin Küpçü (Koç University)
26	SoK: Benchmark Datasets for Evaluating AI Safety — Gaps Between Guidelines and Practice Nami Ashizawa, Osamu Saisho (NTT)
27	From Sands to Mansions: Actionable, Customizable, and Causality-Preserving Cyberattack Emulation with LLM-Powered Symbolic Planning Lingzhi Wang, Yan Chen (Northwestern University), Zhenyuan Li, Yi Jiang, Zhengkai Wang, Wei Ruan (Zhejiang University), Xiangmin Shen (Hofstra University)
28	ChatIoT: Large Language Model-Based Security Assistant for Internet of Things with RAG Ye Dong (National University of Singapore), Yan Lin Aung (University of Derby), Sudipta Chattopadhyay (University of Missouri, Kansas City), Jianying Zhou (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
29	A Theoretical Framework for the Security of Multi-Stage LLM Output Filtering Pipelines Zhenhang Shang, Haoyu Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
30	Adaptive Randomized Smoothing with Certified Robustness for Mitigating Tabular Adversarial Attacks Nour Alhussien (University at Albany), Bradley Boswell, Ahmed Aleroud, Gokila Dorai (Augusta University), Gagan Agrawal (University of Georgia)

ACNS Social Dinner — Evening (time and venue TBA).

Day 3 — Wednesday, June 24

Keynote · Systems · Privacy and Identity · Advanced Cryptography · ACNS Awards

09:00–10:20	Keynote Session 3: Dan Guido (CEO, Trail of Bits)
10:20–10:50	Coffee Break
11:10–12:40	Session 6: Systems and Network Security
12:40–14:00	Lunch
14:00–15:30	Session 7: Privacy, Authentication, and Digital Identity
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00–17:30	Session 8: Advanced Cryptographic Foundations and Protocols
17:30–17:40	ACNS Awards

Keynote Session 3

Dan Guido — CEO, Trail of Bits

09:00–10:20

Session 6 — Systems and Network Security

11:10–12:40 · 6 papers · 15 min each

31	Topology-Hiding Path Validation for Large-Scale Quantum Key Distribution Networks Stephan Krenn, Omid Mir, Thomas Lorünser, Sebastian Ramacher, Florian Wohner (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
32	Photons Are Perfect, Protocols Are Not: Cracking QKD BBM92 via the Internet Kashyap Thimmaraju, Max Hiort, Darshit Suratwala, Elham Amini, Jean-Pierre Seifert (TU Berlin)
33	FivGeeFuzz: Authorization-Aware API Fuzzing of 5G Core Service-Based Interfaces Anqi Chen, Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Northeastern University), Riccardo Preatoni, Brighente Alessandro, Mauro Conti (University of Padua & Örebro University)
34	ICSBoM: Uncovering Hidden Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in ICS Firmware Yongyu Xie, Daniel Khoshkhoo, Brian Davidson, Burak Sahin, Ryan Pickren, Raheem Beyah, Saman Zonouz (Georgia Institute of Technology), Hithem Lamri, Constantine Doumanidis, Mihalis Maniatakos (NYU Abu Dhabi), Katherine Davis (Texas A&M University)
35	Deception by Design: A Configurable Platform for Flexible Cyber Deception Strategy Testing and Evaluation Sukwha Kyung, Souradip Nath, Jaejong Baek, Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University)
36	Firmware Transparency: Strengthening Security Guarantees Against Bootloader-Targeting Attacks Mario Lins, René Mayrhofer (Johannes Kepler University Linz), David Zeuthen (Google)

Session 7 — Privacy, Authentication, and Digital Identity

14:00–15:30 · 6 papers · 15 min each

37	PrivSpike: A Privacy-Preserving Inference Framework for Deep Spiking Neural Networks using Homomorphic Encryption Nges Brian Njungle, Eric Jahns, Michel Kinsy (Arizona State University), Milan Stojkov (University of Novi Sad)
38	Fully Encrypted Machine Learning Training Using Function-Hiding Functional Encryption Linda Scheu-Hachtel, Jasmin Zalonis (University of Mannheim)
39	Policy-Based Access Tokens: Privacy-Preserving Verification for Digital Identity Daniel Gardham, Kiran Pun, Nick Frymann (University of Surrey)
40	Efficient Aggregate Anonymous Credentials for Decentralized Identity Elli Androulaki, Angelo De Caro, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Rebekah Mercer (IBM Research Zurich / ETH Zürich)
41	The Cryptographic Layer of Biometric Authentication Keng-Yu Chen, Serge Vaudenay (EPFL)
42	PPMLAuth: Privacy-Preserving and Tamper-Resistant Behavioral Authentication David Monschein, Alexander Niedermayer, Oliver Waldhorst (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)

Session 8 — Advanced Cryptographic Foundations and Protocols

16:00–17:30 · 6 papers · 15 min each

43	Protecting Quantum Circuits Through Compiler-Resistant Obfuscation Pradyun P (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Amal Raj, Vivek Balachandran (Singapore Institute of Technology)
44	Practice-Oriented Instances of Deterministic LPN Carlos Cid (Simula UiB / Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Alex Davidson (LASIGE, Universidade de Lisboa), Atharva Phanse (Simula UiB)
45	How to Kickstart F_smt with Short Authentication Strings and Out-Of-Band Communication Wasilij Beskorovajnov (FZI Research Center for Information Technology), Jörn Müller-Quade (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
46	Sovereign Modal Signatures Yingfei Yan (Xidian University), Khai Hanh Tang, San Ling, Huaxiong Wang (Nanyang Technological University), Hien Chu (TU Wien), Sherman S. M. Chow (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Kai Zhang (Shaanxi Normal University)
47	Practical Zero-Trust Threshold Signatures in Large-Scale Asynchronous Networks Offir Friedman, Avichai Marmor, Dolev Mutzari, Yehonatan C. Scaly (dwallet labs), Yuval Spiizer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
48	(Re-)Formalization and Construction of Reusable and Robust Threshold Fuzzy Extractors Keisuke Hara, Keitaro Hashimoto, Takahiro Matsuda (AIST), Wataru Nakamura, Kenta Takahashi (Hitachi, Ltd.)

ACNS Awards — 17:30–17:40, following Session 8.

Day 4 — Thursday, June 25

Cryptanalysis · Secure Protocols · AI Robustness · Systems Security · Closing

09:00–10:30	Session 9: Cryptanalysis and Secure Protocols
10:30–11:00	Coffee Break
11:00–11:30	Session 10: AI Robustness and Neural Distinguishers
11:30–13:00	Lunch
13:00–14:00	Session 11: Implementation, Exfiltration, and Systems Security
14:00–14:10	Closing Remarks

Session 9 — Cryptanalysis and Secure Protocols

09:00–10:30 · 5 papers · 15 min each

49	Improving Correlation Power Analysis on Masked CRYSTALS-Kyber with Lattice Attack Yen-Ting Kuo, Atsushi Takayasu (The University of Tokyo)
51	Related-Key Cryptanalysis of FUTURE Amit Jana, Smita Das, Ayantika Chatterjee, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay (IIT Kharagpur), Yu Sasaki (NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, NIST Associate)
55	SoK: Outsourced Private Set Intersection Sophie Hawkes, Christian Weinert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
56	Updatable Private Set Intersection and Beyond: Efficient Constructions via Circuit PSI Ferran Alborch, Antonio Faonio, Camille Malek, Melek Önen, Alexandre Fontaine, Tom Chauvier (EURECOM), Ferhat Karakoç (Ericsson Research), Alptekin Küpçü (Koç University)
57	Round-Optimal Privacy Preserving Authenticated Key Exchange Even for Incomplete Sessions Xavier Bultel, Khouédia Cisse (INSA CVL)

Session 10 — AI Robustness and Neural Distinguishers

11:00–11:30 · 2 papers · 15 min each

53	RLND: A ResNet and LSTM Based Neural Distinguisher for Lightweight Block Ciphers Jie Liu, Junjie Xu, Yunhao Qiu, Qibo Liu (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
54	Understanding the Robustness of BERT Models Against Hardware Errors: An Experimental Study Ruixuan Wang, Xun Jiao (Villanova University), Dongning Ma (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)

Session 11 — Implementation, Exfiltration, and Systems Security

13:00–14:00 · 4 papers · 15 min each

50	High-Throughput Side-Channel-Protected Stream Cipher Hardware for 6G Systems Yuluan Cao, Cankun Zhao, Bohan Yang, Wenping Zhu, Hanning Wang, Leibo Liu (Tsinghua University), Min Zhu (Wuxi Micro Innovation Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd.)
52	OverHear: Headphone-Based Multi-Sensor Keystroke Inference Raveen Wijewickrama, Maryam Abbasihafshejani, Murtuza Jadliwala (University of Texas at San Antonio), Anindya Maiti (University of Oklahoma)
58	Adversarial DNS Exfiltration: Framework and Defense Evaluation Cooper Morgan, Logan Day, Filip Jagodzinski, Hsiang-Jen Hong (Western Washington University)
59	RESPEC-CFA: Representation-Aware Speculative Control Flow Attestation Liam Tyler, Ivan De Oliveira Nunes (University of Zurich), Adam Caulfield (University of Waterloo)

Closing Remarks — 14:00–14:10, following Session 11.