About Inscrypt 2025

The 21st China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (INSCRYPT 2025) will be held in Xi'an from October 19th to October 21st, 2025, organized by the State Key Laboratry of Integrated Services Networks (ISN) of Xidian University, the State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defense (SKLCSD) of the Institute of Information Engineering of Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research (CACR). Inscrypt 2025 seeks high-quality research contributions in the form of well developed papers. Topics of interest encompass research advances in ALL areas of information security, cryptology, and their applications. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS series.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Due April 15, 2025 （1st Round ） June 15, 2025（2nd Round ）
Author Notification June 1, 2025（1st Round ） August 1, 2025（2nd Round ）
Camera-ready Paper Due August 15, 2025
Author Registration Due September 15, 2025
Conference Date October 19-21, 2025

Sponsors

Conference Topics

Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related to cryptology, information security and their applications for either crypto track or security track. All submissions must describe original research that is not published or currently under review by another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Cryptologic Track

  • Foundations of Cryptography
  • Provable Security
  • Sequences and Boolean Functions
  • Secure Multiparty Computation
  • Symmetric Key Cryptosystems
  • Public Key Cryptosystems
  • Implementation of Cryptosystems
  • Hash Functions and MACs
  • Block Cipher Modes of Operation
  • Key Management and Key Recovery
  • Security Protocols and Their Analysis
  • Information Hiding and Watermarking
  • Secure computation outsourcing
  • Functional computation and verifiable computation
  • Obfuscation
  • Leakage-resilient cryptography

Security Track

  • Access Control
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Biometric Security
  • Distributed System Security
  • Electronic Commerce Security
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Network Security
  • Security Modeling and Architectures
  • Intellectual Property Protection
  • Mobile System Security
  • Operating System Security
  • Risk Evaluation and Security Certification
  • Prevention and Detection of Malicious Codes
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies
  • Genomic privacy and SDN security
  • Big data and cloud security

Paper Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings or any journal. The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS).

How to submit your paper

Submitted papers must follow the LNCS template from the time they are submitted. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English.

Submissions must be uploaded to the following EasyChair website:

Inscrypt 2025 Submission Link

Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All submissions must be received by 11:59 PM (UTC-8) on the day of the corresponding deadline.

Keynote

Prof.  Jian Guo

Affiliation: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Title: TBD

Biography

Guo Jian is an associate professor with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and currently serves as the director with IACR Board. His research interests include specializes in symmetric-key cryptography, including cryptanalysis, lightweight hash functions, block ciphers, authenticated encryption schemes, and their applications.

Prof. Kui Ren

Affiliation: Zhejiang University, China

Title: TBD

Biography

Kui Ren is a Professor and Dean of the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, where he also directs the Institute of Cyber Science and Technology. Before that, he was the SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kui’s current research interests include data security, IoT security, AI security, and privacy. In 2017, he received the IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award. He also received the Sigma Xi/IIT Research Excellence Award in 2012 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2011. He has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has received several Best Paper Awards and a Test of Time Paper Award, including IEEE ICDCS’20, ACM MobiSys’20, IEEE INFOCOM’20, IEEE Globecom’19, ChinaCrypt’18, ACM ASIACCS’18, ICPADS’18, IEEE ICDCS’17, IWQoS’17, and ICNP’11. According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 96, and his total citations have exceeded 50,000. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. He currently serves as an area/associate editor for ACM Trans. On Cyber Physical Systems, IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Trans. on Service Computing, IEEE Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Computer Networks.

Prof. Willy Susilo

Affiliation: University of Wollongong, Australia

Title: TBD

Biography

Willy Susilo is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. He holds the most prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council. He is the director of Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, School of Computing and Information Technology, UOW. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, an ACS Fellow and an AAIA Fellow. Previously, he was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2009. He has published more than 500 papers in journals and conference proceedings in cryptography and network security. In 2016, he was awarded the ``Researcher of the Year” at UOW, due to his research excellence and contributions. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Information journal and the Special Content Editor of the Elsevier’s Computer Standards and Interfaces. He is also serving as an Associate Editors in several international journals, including IEEE Transactions. He has also served as the program committee member of several international conferences.

Prof. Yang Xiang

Affiliation: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Title: TBD

Biography

Yang Xiang is currently a full professor and the Dean of Digital Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. At Swinburne he is driving the university digital research strategy and leading a group of talented researchers to help industry partners solve domain problems via digital transformation and innovation. He founded the Swinburne's Digital Research Innovation Capability Platform to develop digital technologies and translates these into real-world applications. Professor Xiang provides strategic and expert advice to both private and public sectors in Australia, working closely with clients on matters ranging from strategic planning to operational reviews and risk management as well as implementing major initiatives and projects. He is also leading the Blockchain initiatives at Swinburne. His personal research interests include cyber security, which covers network and system security, data analytics, distributed systems, and networking. In the past 20 years, he has published more than 300 research papers in many international journals and conferences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the SpringerBriefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks. He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and ACM Computing Surveys. He is the Coordinator, Asia for IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP), and the Chair of the Australia and New Zealand, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Accepted Papers

To be announced.

Conference Program

To be announced.

Registration Information

There are two types of registration for Inscrypt 2025: Author and Attendee.
At least one author for each accepted paper must complete an Author Registration before the registration due (September 15, 2025), in order for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.

Registration Type Registration Fee
Author Registration 4000 CNY / 550 USD
Attendee Registration 3000 CNY / 420 USD

Each registration includes a conference kit, coffee breaks, lunches, a banquet dinner, and access to all conference sessions.

Registration Method

To complete registration, please fill the following registration form and send it with a scanned copy of the bank transfer transaction receipt to inscrypt2025@126.com.

Registration Form | 中文注册表

注: 国内参会代表请使用中文注册表, 其中包含发票信息.

International Bank Transfer

Attention/Beneficiary Xidian University
Bank Name BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS, XI'AN BRANCH
Address No.2, TaiBai South Road, XI'AN, P. R. China
SWIFT Code COMMCNSHIAN
Account Number 611301135018000478803

TRANSFER NOTE: Please do include a note on the bank transfer in the following format:
inscrypt-PaperID-Surname (for authors) or inscrypt-Givenname-Surname-Abbreviation_of_Affiliation (for attendees).
For instance, inscrypt-142-Doe or inscrypt-John-Doe-XDU.

Domestic Bank Transfer (国内银行转账)

户名 西安电子科技大学
开户行 交通银行西安光华路支行
账号 611301135018000478803
地址 陕西省西安市太白南路2号
电话 029-88201000

转账附言: 请务必按以下格式填写转账附言:
inscrypt-文章编号-姓氏拼音 (作者) 或 inscrypt-名字拼音-姓氏拼音-单位简称 (参会者).
例如: inscrypt-142-Zhang 或 inscrypt-San-Zhang-XDU.

Organizing Committee

Honorial Conference Chairs

Xiaoyun Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Moti Yung, Columbia University, USA

General Co-Chairs

Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Xinyi Huang, Jinan University, China
Dongdai Lin, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Co-Chairs

Rongmao Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Moti Yung, Columbia University, USA

Organizing Chairs

Debiao He, Wuhan University, China
Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China

Publication Chair

Xiaoyu Zhang, Xidian University, China

Publicity Chairs

Weizhi Meng, Lancaster University, UK
Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan
Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China
Wei Zong, University of Wollongong, Australia

Program Committee


Yanan Cao, Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Science, China
Jie Chen, East China Normal University, China
Rongmao Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Yu Chen, Shandong University, China
Yulong Chen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Tingting Cui, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Yi Deng, Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Science, China
Steven Duong, University of Wollongong, Australia
Junqing Gong, East China Normal University, China
Clémentine Gritti, INSA Lyon, France
Fuchun Guo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Kai Hu, Shandong University, China
Xinyi Huang, Jinan University, China
Mustafa Khairallah, Lund University, Sweden
Charlotte Lefevre, Radboud University, Netherlands
Meng Li, Hefei University of Technology, China
Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan
Ling Sun, Shandong University, China
Yao Sun, Institute of Information Engineering Chinese Academy of Science, China
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Younes Talibi Alaoui, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Anyu Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Haoyang Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Meiqin Wang, Shandong University, China
Yi Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China
Haiyang Xue, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Yinxing Xue, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Guomin Yang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Yang Yu, Tsinghua University, China
Moti Yung, Columbia University, USA
Bingsheng Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
Fan Zhang,Zhejiang University, China
Shengzhi Zhang, Boston University, USA

Contact

For all questions about submittion, registration, venue, visa, and hotel reservation, please contact inscrypt2025@126.com.

Email inscrypt2025@126.com

Notice

Please note that the conference hotel or the conference secretary will not contact any attendee about reservations, so please be cautious when you are asked to provide credit card and identification information in order to reserve a room for you. If you have any questions, please contact us at the conference e-mail address.

Conference Venue

To be announced.

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