CBCrypto 2026 

Code-based cryptography is the study of cryptographic systems whose security relies on hard coding-theoretic problems, pioneered by McEliece and Niederreiter almost fifty years ago.

An important line of research within cryptography is focused on the design and analysis of schemes that will resist attacks from users equipped with sufficiently large and stable quantum computers, giving birth to the area known as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). In 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a vast effort to standardize PQC, with the goal of selecting new mechanisms for key transport (encryption schemes and KEMs) and authentication (digital signature schemes). Code-based cryptography has played a major role in this process, with the code-based protocol named HQC being selected as part of the first batch of standards; meanwhile, the process continues with the selection of additional designs for signature schemes, which again features multiple code-based submissions. Beyond PQC, coding theoretic approaches have also been proposed for other cryptographic purposes, including but not limited to coding for oblivious transfer protocols and coding for combining information theoretic security and computational security on a wiretap channel.

The workshop aims to bring together the existing community as well as young (and older) researchers approaching this research area for the first time, informing researchers across the community about the newest results in the field, and fostering further collaborations.

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