Asiacrypt 2026

Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Technologies

Privacy-preserving technologies have moved from theoretical constructions to systems that protect real users at scale. Zero-knowledge proof systems, anonymous credentials, threshold encryption, and secure multi-party computation now run in production on public networks, where every design decision is exposed to adversarial scrutiny and every inefficiency carries a concrete cost. This deployment wave has generated a stream of research problems that neither the theory community nor practitioners can solve alone: proving on consumer hardware, confidential computation over globally replicated state, anonymity that remains compatible with accountability, and metadata protection in open peer-to-peer networks. WPPT aims to bring together cryptographers, protocol designers, and practitioners to explore the common challenge of integrating privacy features into open, permissionless infrastructure.

Organizers

Shyam Sridhar (Ethereum Foundation)
Chengru Zhang (Ethereum Foundation)

First Asiacrypt Industry Forum on Cryptography and Finance

AsiaCryptoFin 2026 will be the first ASIACRYPT Industry Forum on Cryptography and Finance, designed to strengthen engagement between the cryptography research community and the financial sector.

Cryptography is rapidly becoming a foundational technology for modern financial systems, underpinning digital payments, digital identity, tokenized assets, central bank digital currencies, privacy-preserving financial services, regulatory technologies, and next- generation digital infrastructures. At the same time, financial institutions are increasingly facing challenges related to quantum threats, privacy regulations, AI-driven services, and digital asset ecosystems.

AsiaCryptoFin 2026 will provide a dedicated platform for leading researchers, financial institutions, regulators, FinTech companies, technology providers, and policymakers to discuss emerging opportunities and challenges at the intersection of cryptography and finance.

Organizers

Joseph Liu (Monash University)
John Yuen (Monash University)

Workshop on the Design and Analysis of Post Quantum Cryptography and Fully Homomorphic Encryption

The global transition to next-generation cryptography necessitates a comprehensive and rigorous exploration of diverse cryptographic primitives. The PQC-FHE 2026 workshop is dedicated to the algorithmic construction, parameter optimization, and security analysis of two critical domains: Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). For PQC, the workshop will explore concrete design and cryptanalysis across diverse paradigms (including lattice-based, isogeny-based, code-based, and multivariate schemes). For FHE, the event will delve into the algorithm design and practical deployment of advanced schemes (e.g., BGV, BFV, CKKS, TFHE) and crucial optimization techniques.

Organizers

Xianhui Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Ruida Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Cryptography for AI and Trustworthy Ecosystems

Modern AI security is no longer only about training a model or serving it behind a protected endpoint. A deployed AI service is an ecosystem: data are collected, filtered, labeled, retrieved, forgotten, and reused; models are trained, fine-tuned, routed, evaluated, and updated; relays and APIs mediate access; agents invoke tools and credentials; and outputs move through provenance, watermarking, auditing, and governance layers. Each stage creates a different kind of trust problem, and many of these problems are still outside the standard cryptographic treatment of secure training or private inference.

CATE 2026 will provide a forum for cryptographic methods that address this broader AI ecosystem. The workshop will invite mechanisms, systems, attacks, measurements, definitions, and systematizations on topics such as private data collection, relay security and honesty, backdoor prevention and detection, verifiable unlearning, data and output provenance, watermarking and steganography, secure evaluation, model/API accountability, and agent security with cryptographic methods. The goal is to help the community reason about AI pipelines whose guarantees must span many parties, interfaces, and incentives.

Organizers

Mingxun Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Jian Liu (Zhejiang University)
Jiaheng Zhang (National University of Singapore)
Yuncong Hu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Mathematics for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Post-quantum schemes rely on several families of computationally hard problems, including lattice problems (e.g., the shortest vector problem on Euclidean and ideal lattices, and the lattice isomorphism problem on Euclidean and module lattices), finding isogenies between supersingular elliptic curves (and superspecial abelian varieties) over finite fields, decoding problems for linear codes, and solving systems of multivariate quadratic (MQ) equations over finite fields. These problems draw on a broad range of mathematical disciplines, including number theory, algebra, the geometry of numbers, algebraic geometry, and many others.

In light of these connections, MathPQC 2026 aims to bring together mathematicians working in these fields and cryptographers interested in the mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography. The event will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas across disciplines, highlight recent developments, and foster new interactions between the mathematics and cryptography communities.

Organizers

Shi Bai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Mingjie Chen (KU Leuven)
Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland)

Workshop on Decentralized Secure Collaboration

Modern collaboration systems increasingly operate without a single trusted controller. Users, servers, committees, wallets, ledgers, auditors, and verifiers may all participate in a common system, while no single party should necessarily hold all keys, observe all data, decide all access, or be trusted to report the outcome. This creates a common cryptographic problem: how can mutually distrustful parties collaborate while preserving privacy, robustness, accountability, and verifiability?

WDSC 2026 brings together researchers working on threshold and distributed cryptography, privacy-preserving authentication, zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable computation, migration to post-quantum assumptions, and deployed cryptographic systems. The workshop aims to identify shared models, deployment constraints, APIs, benchmarks, failure modes, and open problems for decentralized secure collaboration.

Organizers

Sherman S. M. Chow (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Shang Gao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Harry W. H. Wong (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Yingfei Yan (Clermont Auvergne University)

2nd International Workshop on Crypto for Real World Asset

CRWA'26 provides a focused forum to explore the cryptographic foundations and practical deployments of tokenized asset systems. The workshop covers topics including:

1. Zero-knowledge proofs, succinct commitments, and accountable consensus
2. Multi-party computation (MPC) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)
3. Post-quantum cryptography applicable to high-value, long-lifecycle assets

The emphasis is on concrete use cases, such as: Tokenized bonds, equities, and treasuries; Stablecoins and CBDCs with compliance-aware mechanisms; Regulated DeFi and privacy-preserving payments.

Organizers

Qin Wang (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia)
Zhipeng Wang (University of Manchester)
István András Seres (Eötvös Loránd University)
Alireza Kavousi (University College London)