ACNS 2026
Applied Cryptography and Network Security
(https://acns2026.github.io/)
Stony Brook, NY, USA (Wang Center, Stony Brook University)
Conference Dates
6/22/26 - 6/25/26
CFP: Applied Cryptography and Network Security
Submission Dates
ACNS 2026 has two submission cycles:
Cycle 1
Paper Submission: 9/26/25 (AoE)
Cycle 2
Paper Submission: 1/23/26 (AoE)
Note: All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Papers rejected
after the September round cannot be resubmitted at the January round.
Call for Papers (Full Text)
The Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) conference is an
annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the
areas of applied cryptography, cybersecurity (including network and
computer security), and privacy. The goal is to represent both
academic research works as well as developments in industrial and
technical frontiers. Submissions may focus on the modelling, design,
analysis (including security proofs and attacks), development (e.g.,
implementations), deployment (e.g., system integration), and
maintenance (e.g., performance measurements and usability studies) of
algorithms, protocols, standards, implementations, technologies,
devices, systems standing in relation with applied cryptography,
cybersecurity and privacy, while advancing or bringing new insights to
the state of the art.
The 2026 edition of ACNS will be held at the Wang Center in Stony
Brook. The proceedings of ACNS 2026 will be published as a part of
Springer's LNCS series.
Important Dates
While taking place at Stony Brook, NY during June 22-25, 2026, the
ACNS 2026 conference will have two cycles for paper submissions. The
first cycle will be due on September 26, 2025 AoE and the second cycle
will be due on January 23, 2026 AoE.
First submission cycle dates:
Cycle 1 Submission deadline: 9/26/25 (AoE)
Cycle 1 Notification: 11/20/25 (AoE)
Second submission cycle dates:
Cycle 2 Submission deadline: 1/23/26 (AoE)
Cycle 2 Notification: 3/19/26 (AoE)
Conference: 6/22/26 - 6/25/26
General Chairs
Omar Chowdhury, Stony Brook University, USA
Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University, USA
Program Chairs
Aniket Kate, Purdue University, USA
Kangkook Jee, UT Dallas, USA
Call for Papers
The Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) conference is an
annual international conference covering research in theory and
applications of information security. ACNS aims to attract
high-quality papers in all technical aspects of information
security. This includes submissions from academia, industry, and
government on traditional as well as emerging topics and new paradigms
in these areas, with a clear connection to real-world problems,
systems, or applications.
ACNS gives the best student paper award, with a 1500 EUR prize
sponsored by Springer, to encourage promising students to publish
their best results at this venue. Any paper with a student as an
author is eligible for this award.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published (other than preprint) or accepted for publication or
that are simultaneously in submission to a journal, conference, or
workshop with published proceedings. Information about submissions may
be shared with program chairs of other conferences for that purpose.
ACNS 2026 solicits the submission of Systematization of Knowledge
(SoK) papers, which have been very valuable to help our community to
clarify and put into context complex research problems. It is
important to stress that SoK papers go beyond simply summarizing
previous research (like in a survey), but also include a thorough
examination and analysis of existing approaches, identify gaps and
limitations, and offer insights or new perspectives on a given major
research area. We encourage the authors to distinguish SoK submissions
by adding the SoK: prefix to the title.
Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations,
acknowledgments, or obvious references. Each submission must begin
with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. The
introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a
level appropriate for a non-specialist reader.
All submissions must be submitted in PDF format, following the
unmodified LNCS format (accessible on the Springer LCNS author
guidelines webpage) and typeset using the corresponding LaTeX class
file (Overleaf template). They must fit within a page limit of 20
pages, including title and abstract, figures, etc., but excluding
references. Optionally, any amount of clearly marked supplementary
material may be supplied, following the main body of the paper;
however, reviewers are not required to read or review any
supplementary material, and submissions are expected to be
intelligible without it.
For papers that might raise ethical concerns, authors are expected to
convince reviewers that proper procedures (such as Institutional
Review Board approval) have been followed and due diligence has been
made to minimize potential harm.
ACNS 2026 has two submission deadlines (in September and January) that
authors may choose to submit their papers to. Papers rejected after
the September round cannot be resubmitted at the January round.
We will publish our proceedings with Springer as a volume of the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
The program co-chairs require cooperation from both authors and
program committee members to prevent submissions from being evaluated
by reviewers who have a conflict of interest. During the submission
process, we will ask authors to identify members of the program
committee with whom they share a conflict of interest.
Submission Sites:
Cycle 1: https://acns26-cycle1.hotcrp.com/
Cycle 2: https://acns26-cycle2.hotcrp.com/
Publication
Proceedings will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS).
Awards
Best Student Paper Award: 1500 EUR prize (sponsored by Springer)
Best Workshop Paper Award: 500 EUR prize (sponsored by Springer)
Best Poster Award