CANS 2025 Call For Papers

About the conference

The International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) is a premier forum for presenting research in the field of cryptology and network security. The conference seeks academic, industry, and government submissions on all theoretical and practical aspects of cryptology and network security, and its extended domains in modern computing systems (see below for Topic Areas). This year marks the 24th iteration of the conference and will be held at Osaka, Japan. Proceedings of this year's conference will be published by Springer LNCS; proceedings of previous iterations of the conference can be found online.

Submission guidelines

High quality papers on unpublished research and implementation experiences may be submitted. All papers must be original and not substantially duplicate work that has been published at, or is simultaneously submitted to, a journal or another conference or workshop with proceedings. All submissions must be written in English and span no more than 20 pages in the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format, including title, abstract, and bibliography. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level understandable by a non-expert reader and explain the context to related work.

Submitted papers may contain supplementary material in the form of well-marked appendices or a separate file archive (particularly for source code, data files, etc.). Note that supplementary material will not be included in the proceedings. Moreover, the main paper should be intelligible without requiring the reader to consult the supplementary material; the reviewers may optionally refer to the supplementary material, but are also permitted to base their assessment on the main paper alone.

Submissions must be anonymous (no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references). The conference will also consider short papers of up to eight pages in the LNCS format, excluding the bibliography (max 2 pages), for results that are not yet fully fleshed out or that simply require fewer pages to describe but still make a significant contribution.

All submissions must be processed with LaTeX2e according to the instructions given by Springer. Submitted manuscripts must be typeset in plain Springer LNCS format, in particular without changing the font size, margins or line spacing. Submissions not meeting these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits.

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair. The deadline for submissions is 17 April anywhere on earth (AoE).

Important dates

Submission:  17 April AoE. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair.

Notification: 10 July

Camera-ready: 14 August

Conference: 17–20 November

Presentation requirements

At least one author of every accepted paper must register and pay the full registration fee (non-student) for the conference by the early registration deadline indicated by the organizers. Papers without a registered author will be removed from the sessions. Authors must present their own paper(s). Session proceedings, including all accepted papers, will be published in LNCS and will be available at the conference.

Topic areas

• Access Control
• Anonymity and Censorship Resistance
• Applied Cryptography
• Biometrics
• Block Ciphers & Stream Ciphers
• Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Security and Privacy
• Confidential Computing
• Cryptographic Algorithms and Primitives
• Cryptographic Protocols
• Cyber Attack (DDoS, Botnets, APTs) prevention, detection and response
• Cyber-crime defense and forensics
• Data and Application Security
• Denial of Service Protection
• Data and Computation Integrity
• Edge/Fog Computing Security and Privacy
• Embedded System Security
• Formal Methods for Security and Privacy
• Hash Functions
• Identity Management and Privacy
• IoT (e.g., smart homes, IoT, body-area networks, VANETs) Security
• Key Management
• Location Based Services Security and Privacy
• Malware Analysis, Detection and Prevention
• Machine Learning for Security
• Network protocol (routing, management) security 
• Online Social Networks Security and Privacy
• Peer-to-Peer Security and Privacy
• Post-Quantum Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
• Privacy and anonymity in networks and distributed systems
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
• Public-Key Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
• Security for Cloud/Edge computing
• Security for cyber-physical systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles, industrial control systems)
• Security and Privacy of ML and AI-Based Systems
• Security and Resilient Solutions for Critical Infrastructures (e.g., electronic voting, smart grid)
• Security Architectures
• Security in Content Delivery
• Security Models
• Secure Multi-Party Computation
• Secure Distributed Computing
• Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
• Trust Management
• Usable Security
• Virtual Private Networks
• Web Security (incl. social networking, crowd-sourcing, fake news/disinformation)
• Wireless and Mobile Security
• Zero-Knowledge Proofs