Selected Areas in Cryptography Conference 2026

Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is Canada’s research conference on cryptography, held annually since 1994.

The 33^rd edition of SAC will take place at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from August 26 to 28, 2026, and will be preceded by the SAC Summer School on August 24 and 25, 2026.

SAC 2026 will be co-located with the 23^rd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST 2026).

Topics

There are four areas covered at each SAC conference. Three of the areas are permanent.

• Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash function, MAC algorithms, cryptographic permutations, and authenticated encryption schemes;
• Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms; and
• Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology.

The special selected topic for SAC 2026 is:

• Lattice-based and code-based cryptography.