Workshops

Workshops will take place on the afternoon of October 5th, 2026.

Permanent Workshops

• Topics in Applied Cryptography

• Number Theory & Cryptography

• Recent Advances in Post-Quantum Cryptography

• Symmetric Cryptography & Coding Theory

• Open Workshop

TOPICS IN APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY (TAC)

• Chiara Spadafora, SwissPost
• Silvia Onofri, SNS

• Applications of cryptography, including performance evaluations, attacks and vulnerabilities, hardware and IoT
• Privacy enhancing cryptography
• Homomorphic encryption
• Secure multi-party computation
• Quantum key distrbution and quantum-safe cryptography

NUMBER THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

• Andrea Gangemi, ShunyaXifra
• Pietro Mercuri, Univ. of Palermo

• Elliptic Curves
• Factorization Methods
• Isogenies
• Primality tests
• Pseudorandom number generators

ReAdPQC26 - Recent Advances in Post-Quantum Cryptography 2026

• Marco Baldi, Marche Polytechnic University
• Alessio Caminata, University of Genoa
• Annamaria Iezzi, Université Grenoble Alpes
• Alessio Meneghetti, University of Bari, Italy
• Edoardo Persichetti, Florida Atlantic University
• Federico Pintore, University of Trento, Italy

• Multivariate cryptography
• Code-based cryptography
• Hash-based cryptography
• Lattice-based cryptography
• Isogeny-based cryptography

SYMMETRIC CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CODING THEORY

• Marco Calderini, Università di Trento
• Roberto La Scala, Università di Bari
• Ferdinando Zullo, Università della Campania

• Boolean Functions
• Symmetric cryptography
• Coding Theory
• Discrete Mathematics

OPEN WORKSHOP

• Massimo Caccia (Univ. of Insubria)