Important dates
May 27, 2025
Submission deadline, 23:59 anywhere on earth (AoE)
Aug 28, 2025
Final notification
Sep 25, 2025
Final versions due
Dec 2, 2025
Conference begins
Further details are
available on the paper submission page.
Call for Papers
General information
TCC 2025 will take place in Aarhus, Denmark on December 2-5, 2025. TCC 2025 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Papers presenting original research on foundational and theoretical aspects of cryptography are sought. For more information about TCC, see the TCC manifesto.
The Theory of Cryptography Conference deals with the paradigms, approaches, and techniques used to conceptualize natural cryptographic problems and provide algorithmic solutions to them. More specifically, the scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the:
- study of known paradigms, approaches, and techniques, directed towards their better understanding and utilization
- discovery of new paradigms, approaches and techniques that overcome limitations of the existing ones
- formulation and treatment of new cryptographic problems
- study of notions of security and relations among them
- modeling and analysis of cryptographic algorithms
- study of the complexity assumptions used in cryptography
TCC is dedicated to providing a premier venue for the dissemination of results within its scope. The conference aims to provide a meeting place for researchers and to be instrumental in shaping the identity of the theoretical cryptography community. With these goals in mind, TCC 2025 is planned to be an in-person meeting. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to present the paper in person at the conference, unless there are extenuating circumstances approved by the chairs.
Further details are
available on the paper submission page.
Proceedings
Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The online version will be available to all conference attendees. Physical books will be available after the conference for a separate fee. Instructions for preparing the final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on the final version deadline listed. This is a strict deadline, and authors should prepare accordingly.
Luca Trevisan Young Researcher Award
This prize is for the best paper authored solely by young researchers, where a young researcher is a person that at the time of the paper's submission is at most two years past their graduation from a PhD program. Eligibility must be indicated at the time of submission, using a checkbox in the submission form. The program committee may decline to make the award, or may split it among several papers.