ACNS 2026 — Conference Papers

24th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security · June 22–25, 2026 · New York, USA

Private - ACNS 2026 attendees only. These are author camera-ready versions provided for the conference while the official Springer LNCS proceedings are in production. Please do not redistribute. The version of record will appear in LNCS volumes 16571-16573.

59 accepted papers across LNCS volumes 16571, 16572, and 16573.

LNCS 16571 §1 — Post-Quantum Cryptography

TitleAuthors
Efficient Post-Quantum EPID Signatures From VOLE-in-the-Head remoteZuming Liu, Yanhong Xu, Deng Tang, Neng Zeng
The Best of Both KEMs: Securely Combining KEMs in Post-Quantum Hybrid SchemesGorjan Alagic, Fahran Bajaj, Aybars Kocoglu
Towards More Efficient Registration-Based Encryption from LWEToi Tomita
Dynamic Puncturable EncryptionPriyanka Dutta, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, Dung Hoang Duong
A Post Quantum Vector Commitment Scheme with Efficient Insertions and DeletionsVir Pathak, Sushmita Ruj
(Partially) Blind Signatures from Cryptographic Group ActionsDung Hoang Duong, Xuan Thanh Khuc, Youming Qiao, Willy Susilo, Chuanqi Zhang
Protecting Quantum Circuits Through Compiler-Resistant ObfuscationPradyun Parayil, Amal Raj, Vivek Balachandran

LNCS 16571 §2 — Cryptographic Primitives and Proof Systems

TitleAuthors
Tight Multi-User Security of CCM and Enhancement by Tag-Based Key Derivation Applied to GCM and CCMYusuke Naito, Yu Sasaki, Takeshi Sugawara
FlexProofs: A Vector Commitment with Flexible Linear Time for Computing All Proofs remoteJing Liu, Liang Feng Zhang
Faster Signature Verification with 3-Dimensional DecompositionVojtech Sucharek, Marek Sys, Lukasz Chmielewski
Efficient Sum-Check for High-Degree Polynomials remoteYu Wang, Yuncong Zhang, Yu Chen
Practical Subvector Commitments with Optimal Opening Complexity remoteMatteo Campanelli
The Cost of Fluidity: Communication Complexity Trade-offs in Fluid MPC remoteShancheng Zhang, Zongyang Zhang, Bernardo Magri
Practice-Oriented Instances of Deterministic LPN remoteCarlos Cid, Alex Davidson, Atharva Phanse

LNCS 16571 §3 — Secure Protocols and Multi-Party Computation

TitleAuthors
How to Kickstart $\mathcal{F}_\text{smt}$ with Short Authentication Strings and Out-Of-Band Communication remoteWasilij Beskorovajnov, Joern Mueller-Quade
Sovereign Modal SignatureYingfei Yan, Khai Hanh Tang, Hien Chu, Sherman S. M. Chow, San Ling, Huaxiong Wang, Kai Zhang
Practical Zero-Trust Threshold Signatures in Large-Scale Asynchronous NetworksOffir Friedman, Avichai Marmor, Dolev Mutzari, Yehonatan C. Scaly, Yuval Spiizer
SoK: Outsourced Private Set IntersectionSophie Hawkes, Christian Weinert
Updatable Private Set Intersection and Beyond: Efficient Constructions via Circuit PSIFerran Alborch, Tom Chauvier, Antonio Faonio, Alexandre Fontaine, Ferhat Karakoc, Alptekin Kupcu, Camille Malek, Melek Onen
Round-Optimal Privacy Preserving Authenticated Key Exchange Even for Incomplete Sessions remoteXavier Bultel, Khouredia Cisse

LNCS 16572 §4 — Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

TitleAuthors
TAPIR: A Two-Server Authenticated PIR Scheme with PreprocessingFrancesca Falzon, Laura Hetz, Annamira O'Toole
BI-ORAM: An Oblivious Bulk-Insertion Log TableZhiqiang Wu, Jun Liu
Automatic Teller Machines for Offline EcashAnrin Chakraborti, Qingzhao Zhang, Jingjia Peng, Morley Mao, Michael K. Reiter
NEPAL: Climbing Beyond the Limits of Graph Matching Attacks in Privacy-Preserving Record LinkageMarcel Mildenberger, Jochen Schaefer, Frederik Armknecht
Towards Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning using Hybrid Homomorphic EncryptionIvan Costa, Pedro Correia, Ivone Amorim, Eva Maia, Isabel Praca
FedFDP: Fairness-Aware Federated Learning with Differential PrivacyXinpeng Ling, Jie Fu, Kuncan Wang, Huifa Li, Tong Cheng, Zhili Chen
PrivSpike: A Privacy-Preserving Inference Framework for Deep Spiking Neural Networks using Homomorphic EncryptionNges Brian Njungle, Erich Jahns, Milan Stojkov, Michel A. Kinsy
Fully Encrypted Machine Learning Training Using Function-Hiding Functional EncryptionLinda Scheu-Hachtel, Jasmin Zalonis

LNCS 16572 §5 — Authentication and Digital Identity

TitleAuthors
Policy-Based Access Tokens: Privacy-Preserving Verification for Digital IdentityKiran Pun, Daniel Gardham, Nick Frymann
Efficient Aggregate Anonymous Credentials for Decentralized IdentityRebekah Mercer, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Angelo De Caro, Elli Androulaki
The Cryptographic Layer of Biometric AuthenticationKeng-Yu Chen, Serge Vaudenay
PPMLAuth: Privacy-Preserving and Tamper-Resistant Behavioral AuthenticationDavid Monschein, Alexander Niedermayer, Oliver P. Waldhorst
(Re-)Formalization and Construction of Reusable and Robust Threshold Fuzzy ExtractorsKeisuke Hara, Keitaro Hashimoto, Takahiro Matsuda, Wataru Nakamura, Kenta Takahashi

LNCS 16572 §6 — Blockchain and Decentralized Security

TitleAuthors
Stealth and Beyond: Attribute-Driven Accountability in Bitcoin Transactions remoteAlberto Maria Mongardini, Daniele Friolo, Giuseppe Ateniese
OptiBridge: A Trustless, Cost-Efficient Bridge Between the Lightning Network and EthereumMohsen Minaei, Duc V. Le, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez
$2B Lessons: Brigade as a Defense Against Real-World DeFi Bridge ExploitsPascal Winkler, Jens-Rene Giesen, Oussama Draissi, Federico Badaloni, Sebastian Holler, Clara Schneidewind, Lucas Davi
Visibility-Aware GHOST: Mitigating Visibility Asymmetry in Subtree-Based Proof-of-Work Consensus remoteAbdulwahab Almusailem, Othman Alenezi, Ameer Mohammed
Crypto-Asset Collateralised Loans in Open Finance via Robust Fully Homomorphic EncryptionLorenzo Martinico, Raffaella Calabrese, Tzameret Rubin, Michele Ciampi
X-CHAIN: Enhancing Electronic Supply Chain Security with 3D X-ray Inspection and Blockchain IntegrationShuvodip Maitra, Tishya Sarma Sarkar, Chandan Kumar, Abhishek Chakraborty, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

LNCS 16573 §7 — AI and Machine Learning Security

TitleAuthors
SoK: A Taxonomy of Attacks and Defenses in Split Learning remoteAqsa Shabbir, Halil Ibrahim Kanpak, Alptekin Kupcu, Sinem Sav
SoK: Benchmark Datasets for Evaluating AI Safety: Gaps Between Guidelines and PracticeNami Ashizawa, Osamu Saisho
From Sands to Mansions: Actionable, Customizable, and Causality-Preserving Cyberattack Emulation with LLM-Powered Symbolic PlanningLingzhi Wang, Zhenyuan Li, Yi Jiang, Zhengkai Wang, Xiangmin Shen, Wei Ruan, Yan Chen
ChatIoT: Large Language Model-Based Security Assistant for Internet of Things with RAGYe Dong, Yan Lin Aung, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Jianying Zhou
A Theoretical Framework for the Security of Multi-Stage LLM Output Filtering Pipelines remoteZhenhang Shang, Haoyu Liu
Adaptive Randomized Smoothing with Certified Robustness for Mitigating Tabular Adversarial AttacksNour Alhussien, Bradley Boswell, Gagan Agrawal, Ahmed Aleroud, Gokila Dorai
RLND: A ResNet and LSTM Based Neural Distinguisher for Lightweight Block Ciphers remoteJie Liu, Junjie Xu, Yunhao Qiu, Qibo Liu
Understanding the Robustness of BERT Models Against Hardware Errors: An Experimental StudyRuixuan Wang, Dongning Ma, Xun Jiao
Adversarial DNS Exfiltration: Framework and Defense EvaluationCooper Morgan, Logan Day, Filip Jagodzinski, Hsiang-Jen Hong

LNCS 16573 §8 — Cryptanalysis and Physical Attacks

TitleAuthors
Improving Correlation Power Analysis on Masked CRYSTALS-Kyber with Lattice AttackYen-Ting Kuo, Atsushi Takayasu
High-Throughput Side-Channel-Protected Stream Cipher Hardware for 6G Systems remoteYuluan Cao, Cankun Zhao, Bohan Yang, Wenping Zhu, Hanning Wang, Min Zhu, Leibo Liu
Related-Key Cryptanalysis of FUTUREAmit Jana, Smita Das, Ayantika Chatterjee, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Yu Sasaki
OverHear: Headphone-Based Multi-Sensor Keystroke InferenceRaveen Wijewickrama, Maryam Abbasihafshejani, Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala

LNCS 16573 §9 — Systems and Network Security

TitleAuthors
Topology-Hiding Path Validation for Large-Scale Quantum Key Distribution NetworksStephan Krenn, Omid Mir, Thomas Loruenser, Sebastian Ramacher, Florian Wohner
Photons Are Perfect, Protocols Are Not: Cracking QKD BBM92 via the InternetKashyap Thimmaraju, Max Henri Julian Hiort, Darshit Suratwala, Elham Amini, Jean-Pierre Seifert
FivGeeFuzz: Authorization-Aware API Fuzzing of 5G Core Service-Based InterfacesAnqi Chen, Riccardo Preatoni, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Cristina Nita-Rotaru
ICSBoM: Uncovering Hidden Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in ICS FirmwareYongyu Xie, Daniel Khoshkhoo, Hithem Lamri, Constantine Doumanidis, Brian Davidson, Burak Sahin, Ryan Pickren, Raheem Beyah, Katherine Davis, Michail Maniatakos, Saman Zonouz
Deception by Design: A Configurable Platform for Flexible Cyber Deception Strategy Testing and EvaluationSukwha Kyung, Souradip Nath, Jaejong Baek, Gail-Joon Ahn
Firmware Transparency: Strengthening Security Guarantees Against Bootloader-Targeting Attacks remoteMario Lins, Rene Mayrhofer, David Zeuthen
RESPEC-CFA: Representation-Aware Speculative Control Flow AttestationLiam Tyler, Adam Caulfield, Ivan De Oliveira Nunes