Crypto 2026

August 17-20, 2026

Santa Barbara, USA

Affiliated Events

alert All attendees and speakers at affiliated events must register. Registering for one day of affiliated events enables a participant to attend any of the events on that particular day.

There are five affiliated events that are co-located with Crypto 2026 on the weekend of August 15-16, 2026.

ITC 2026

Information-theoretic cryptography (ITC) is an annual research conference devoted to information-theoretic security and to the mathematical ideas that connect cryptography with coding theory, information theory, privacy, quantum information, and theoretical computer science.

CFAIL

The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in cryptology (CFAIL) is an annual event dedicated to disseminating insightful failures of the cryptology research community.

CLAW

The goal of the Cryptography Lattices Algebra Workshop (CLAW) event will be to bring together researchers working on algebraic and geometric lattice methods in cryptography. In recent years there has been substantial theoretical and practical progress in this subject. Some examples are efficient constructions of rings of integers of number fields with small root discriminants, statistical results on the behavior of the LLL algorithm and reverse Minkowski theorems for integral lattices.

PPML 2026

As machine learning systems become deeply integrated into sensitive applications, ensuring data privacy is more critical than ever. The Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning workshop (PPML) brings together advances in cryptographic techniques—such as secure computation, federated learning, and differential privacy—to explore how we can enable powerful, collaborative models without compromising security or trust.

WAC8

Cryptography is often thought of as the bright spot of practical security, a mathematical paradise where security can be rigorously proven and issues like buffer overflows are in someone else's department. However, there is a growing community of researchers who regularly find serious flaws in widely deployed cryptographic implementations and protocols. This type of research is often published in systems security conferences. The Workshop on Attacks in Cryptography (WAC) will bring together researchers who work on cryptographic attacks and provide a showcase of their work for the Crypto community. This is the eighth edition of the WAC workshop, which was established by Nadia Heninger.

Program

All events are shown in US Pacific Time. Refer to the UCSB campus map for the location of each event.

Time Event
Saturday, August 15
8:00-13:00 Registration in Corwin Lobby
9:00-12:30 Affiliated events: ITC in MCC Theater and CFAIL in UCen Harbor Room
12:30-14:00 Lunch in Carrillo Dining Commons
14:00-17:45 Affiliated events, continued
17:45-19:00 Dinner in Carrillo Dining Commons*
19:00-21:00 Catered dessert reception on UCen Lagoon Plaza
20:00-21:00 Social events in MCC Theater
Sunday, August 16
8:00-13:00 & 17:00-19:00 Registration in Corwin Lobby
8:50-12:30 Affiliated events: ITC in MCC Theater, CLAW in UCen State Street room, PPML in ILP 1302, and WAC8 in UCen Harbor room
12:30-14:00 Lunch in Carrillo Dining Commons
14:00-17:45 Affiliated events, continued
17:30-21:30 Reception Dinner in Manzanita Village Las Encinas Quad

* Note that Saturday dinner is included with the Manzanita accommodation packages. Those who stay off-campus or at The Club & Guest House can purchase meal tickets at the conference registration desk on-site or with a credit card at the door of the dining commons.