Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is Canada’s research conference on cryptography, held annually since 1994.

The 32nd edition of SAC will take place at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from August 13–15, 2025, and will be preceded by the SAC Summer School on August 11–12, 2025.

Topics

There are four areas covered at each SAC conference. Three of the areas are permanent.

1. Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash functions, MAC algorithms, cryptographic permutations, and authenticated encryption schemes;
2. Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms; and
3. Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology including post-quantum cryptology.

The special selected topic for SAC 2025 is:

4. Machine learning and cryptography: applications of machine learning to cryptography and cryptanalysis, and application of cryptanalytic techniques against machine learning algorithms.

SAC 2025 also welcomes papers in any of the areas above with a focus on post-quantum cryptography.

Conference Co-Chairs

• Christina Boura, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
• Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan, Cybersecurity Research Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Ali Miri, Department of Computer Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Important dates

• SAC Summer School: Monday, August 11 – Tuesday, August 12, 2025
• Conference: Wednessday, August 13 – Friday, August 15, 2025

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