Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) is Canada’s research conference on cryptography, held annually since 1994.
The 34th edition of SAC will take place at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada from August 23–27, 2027.
The SAC Summer School will precede the conference; dates will be announced.
Topics
There are four areas covered at each SAC conference. Three of the areas are permanent.
- Design and analysis of symmetric key primitives and cryptosystems, including block and stream ciphers, hash function, MAC algorithms, cryptographic permutations, and authenticated encryption schemes;
- Efficient implementations of symmetric and public key algorithms; and
- Mathematical and algorithmic aspects of applied cryptology.
The fourth, selected topic for SAC 2027 will be announced.
SAC 2027 also welcomes papers in any of the areas above with a focus on post-quantum cryptography.
Conference Co-Chairs
- Riham AlTawy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez, Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline (cycle 1): February 8, 2027
- Notification (cycle 1): March 24, 2027
- Paper submission deadline (cycle 2): May 17, 2027
- Notification (cycle 2): June 30, 2027
- Conference: August 23–27, 2027
