Call for Papers

– Important dates –

Paper submission deadline:  February 16, 2024; March 1st, 2024; 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Paper acceptance notification : April 26, 2024.

Camera-ready version : May 10, 2024

Conference : July 10-12, 2024

Call For Papers

Bellow you will find the detailed Call For Papers. You can download it in PDF format through this link:  download cfp. You will find the link to the submission server at the end of this page. Kindly read the guidelines before submitting your manuscript.

– General Information –

Original papers on all technical aspects of Cryptology are solicited for submission to Africacrypt 2024. 

The conference is organized by the University of Bamenda (UBa) and the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC) in cooperation with the IACR. 

The conference seeks original contributions in any area of cryptology or related fields. We welcome submissions about 

• Classical Cryptography

• Post-quantum Cryptography

• Symmetric key Cryptography

• New cryptographic primitive proposals, 

• Cryptanalysis, 

• Security models, 

• Implementation aspects, 

• Privacy issues, 

• Cryptographic protocols,

• Applied Cryptography

We also accept submissions about cryptographic aspects of

• Network security, 

• Complexity theory, 

• Information theory,

• Coding theory,

• Number theory,

• Quantum computing,

• Biometry. 

This is not an exhaustive list.

– Instructions for Authors –

Submissions must not substantially duplicate published work or work that has been submitted in parallel to any other journal or conference/workshop with published proceedings, and cannot be submitted to any other venue before the notification date. Information about submissions may be shared with program chairs of other conferences for that purpose. Accepted submissions must not appear in any other conference or workshop with proceedings. The submission must be in English. It must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and

its introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader. Submissions not

meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Since the final version of accepted papers will have to follow the LNCS guidelines in LaTeX (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) with a total page limit of 25 pages including references and appendices, it is advised to submit in the same format. 

Papers must be submitted electronically. A link to the online submission server will be available on the conference web site. A detailed description of the electronic submission procedure will be available there. Submissions must conform to this procedure. Late submissions and non-electronic submissions will not be considered.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

– Conference Proceedings –

Proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science and will be available at the conference. Instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers.

– Program Committee –

You can find the list of Program Committee members here.

– Submission Server –