Topics in Applied Cryptography 2025

Co-located with the CIFRIS25 conference
Rome, Italy, September 11-12, 2025

Scope & Topics

Topics in Applied Cryptography 2025 (TAC2025) is a workshop dedicated to cryptography with a specific application, scenario and/or technology in mind, including performance evaluation, libraries and implementation issues, hardware and IoT, attacks and vulnerabilities, and requirements for unusual application scenarios; purely theoretical results are out of scope. Topics of interest include privacy enhancing cryptography, homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, quantum key distribution, and quantum-safe cryptography.

Registration

To participate it is necessary to register on the conference page. The registration is free of charge.

Program

The detailed program will be soon defined and made available.

Invited Speaker:

Contributed Talks:

  • Francesco Stocco (Telsy), Edoardo Signorini (Telsy), and Claudia De Lazzari (QTI)
    QKD (Re)Initialization via PQC: An Industrial Security-Usability Trade-off
  • Lorenzo Rovida (University of Milano-Bicocca, DISCo)
    Exploring blind signatures under FHE by combining GBFV and HAWK
  • Laura Mattiuz (Cybersecurity Center, FBK)
    A Review of Post-Quantum e-Voting

Call for Submissions

If you have a proposal for a talk or demo, please send an extended abstract of maximum 2 pages to tac@fbk.eu. Submissions will be subject to a rolling review, i.e., abstracts will be evaluated as soon as the organizing committee will receive them. Proposals that will be deemed suitable and interesting (by criteria of novelty, significance, and potential to spark engaging discussion that benefits the community) will be accepted within a short time-frame (a few working days). The call will be closed once the time capacity of the workshop will be reached, or by the 22nd of August at the latest. Note that the rolling review process favours earlier submissions.

Organizers

  • Chair Riccardo Longo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (rlongo@fbk.eu).

  • Organizing Committee:

    • Stefano Berlato, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (sberlato@fbk.eu);
    • Veronica Cristiano, Telsy (veronica.cristiano@telsy.it);
    • Marco Pedicini, Roma Tre University - Department of Mathematics and Physics (marco.pedicini@uniroma3.it);
    • Silvio Ranise, University of Trento - Department of Mathematics and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ranise@fbk.eu);
    • Chiara Spadafora, University of Trento - Department of Mathematics (chiara.spadafora@unitn.it);
    • Alessandro Tomasi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (altomasi@fbk.eu).

Acknowledgements

The workshop is developed within the SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace (SERICS) foundation framework (https://serics.eu/). The Foundation’s main purpose is scientific and technological research and, in this perspective, it is established to be the implementing entity of the extended Partnership “SERICS - Security and Rights in CyberSpace” financed following the participation in the Public Notice “for the presentation of Proposals for the creation of “Partnerships extended to universities research centers, companies for the funding of basic research projects” - as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2 “From Research to Enterprise” - Investment 1. 3, funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU - Notice No. 341 of 15.3.2022.

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