Call for Papers

About the conference

The International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) is a premier forum for presenting research in the field of cryptology and network security. The conference seeks academic, industry, and government submissions on all theoretical and practical aspects of cryptology and network security. This year marks the 24th iteration of the conference and will be held at Osaka, Japan. Proceedings of this year's conference will be published by Springer LNCS;

proceedings of previous iterations of the conference can be found online.

Submission guidelines

High-quality papers on unpublished research and implementation experiences may be submitted. All papers must be original and not substantially duplicated work that has been published at, or is simultaneously submitted to, a journal or another conference or workshop. All submissions must be written in English and span no more than 20 pages in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format (a Springer template can be found in Overleaf), including title, abstract, and bibliography. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level understandable by a non-expert reader and explain the context to related work.

Submitted papers may contain supplementary material in the form of well-marked appendices or a separate file archive (particularly for source code, data files, etc.). Note that supplementary material will not be included in the proceedings. Moreover, the main paper should be intelligible without requiring the reader to consult the supplementary material; the reviewers may optionally refer to the supplementary material, but are also permitted to base their assessment on the main paper alone.

Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper.The conference will also consider short papers of up to eight pages in the LNCS format, excluding the bibliography (max 2 pages), for results that are not yet fully fleshed out or that simply require fewer pages to describe but still make a significant contribution.

All submissions must be processed with LaTeX2e according to the instructions given by Springer. Submitted manuscripts must be typeset in plain Springer LNCS format, in particular without changing the font size, margins or line spacing. Submissions not meeting these guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits.

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair. The deadline for submissions is 28 April anywhere on earth (AoE).

Important dates

Submission:  17 April AoE. Papers must be submitted via EasyChair.

Deadline for registering new submissions: 28 April 

Paper updates permitted until: May 1st

Notification: 10 July

Camera-ready: 14 August

Conference: 17–20 November

Presentation requirements

At least one author of every accepted paper must register and pay the full registration fee (non-student) for the conference by the early registration deadline indicated by the organizers. Papers without a registered author will be removed from the sessions. Authors must present their own paper(s). Session proceedings, including all accepted papers, will be published in LNCS and will be available at the conference.

Stipend

The CANS 2025 conference will offer a student grant program to partially support travel and accommodation expenses for full-time students. Eligibility is limited to students whose papers have been accepted, who have paid the conference fee, and who will present their paper at the conference in CANS 2025.

CANS 2025 Best Paper Awards

The Program Committee will consider giving a Best Paper Award to the submission with highest merits. (Details to be announced.)

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