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PKC 2027

International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography

Security

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All deadlines

Paper submissionAug 16, 2026est.

From past proceedings

Papers in PKC's main DBLP volume each year, not official acceptance counts.

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Papers in 2025

60

main DBLP volume

5-year change

+36%

vs 2020

Papers, all years

1,065

29 years since 1998

Authors per paper

3.6

3.3 in 2015

By an entirely new team

15%

of 2025 papers

Papers per year1998 to 2025
1998: 22 papers1999: 25 papers2000: 31 papers2001: 30 papers2002: 27 papers2003: 26 papers2004: 32 papers2005: 28 papers2006: 34 papers2007: 31 papers2008: 22 papers2009: 28 papers2010: 29 papers2011: 29 papers2012: 42 papers2013: 30 papers2014: 38 papers2015: 36 papers2016: 34 papers2017: 36 papers2018: 49 papers2019: 42 papers2020: 44 papers2021: 52 papers2022: 39 papers2023: 50 papers2024: 54 papers2025: 60 papers

Top keywords, 2025

encryptionsecuritysignaturesthresholdconstructionsmulti-signatureszero-knowledgefunctional encryptionlattice-basedmulti-clientnon-interactivebargs

Venues like PKC

  1. ASIACRYPT International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security0.52encryptionsignaturesnon-interactivezero-knowledge
  2. CRYPTO International Cryptology Conference0.44signatureslattice-basedzero-knowledgeencryption
  3. EUROCRYPT European Cryptology Conference0.43encryptionsignaturesnon-interactivecommitments
  4. ACNS Applied Cryptography and Network Security0.34encryptionsignatureslatticesfunctional encryption

Most published at PKC

  1. David Pointcheval2000 to 202527
  2. Benoît Libert2004 to 202424
  3. Moti Yung1998 to 202121
  4. Goichiro Hanaoka2001 to 202121
  5. Brent Waters2006 to 202617

Who publishes here

2026 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 58%Industry 5%Government and other 38%

Institutions

  1. 1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique🇫🇷6
  2. 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University🇨🇳4
  3. 3University of Tartu🇪🇪4
  4. 4Aalto University🇫🇮4
  5. 5Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique🇫🇷3
  6. 6Xidian University🇨🇳3
  7. 7Chinese Academy of Sciences🇨🇳3
  8. 8IMDEA Software Institute🇪🇸3

Countries

  1. China18
  2. United States13
  3. Germany7
  4. France6
  5. United Kingdom6
  6. Belgium4

Affiliations from OpenAlex for the papers DBLP lists. A paper with authors from three institutions counts for each of them; the split above is over the top institutions.