Selected Areas in Cryptography
History
SAC 2026
Victoria, British Columbia – University of Victoria
- chairs: Riham AlTawy
SAC 2025
Toronto, Ontario – Toronto Metropolitan University
- chairs: Christina Boura, Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan, Ali Miri
- additional topic: Machine learning and cryptography: applications of machine learning to cryptography and cryptanalysis, and application of cryptanalytic techniques against machine learning algorithms
SAC 2024
Montréal, Québec – Université de Québec à Montréal
- chairs: Maria Eichlseder, Sébastien Gambs
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Claude Crépeau
- invited speakers: Olivier Blazy
- additional topic: Cryptographic tools for privacy, privacy-enhancing technologies and interactions between privacy and cryptography
Note: SAC 2024 introduced two cycles of submissions.
SAC 2023
Fredericton, New Brunswick – University of New Brunswick
- chairs: Claude Carlet, Kalikinkar Mandal, Vincent Rijmen
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Doug Stinson
- invited speakers: Tim Beyne, Tim Güneysu
- additional topic: Counter-measures against side channel attacks in symmetric cryptography
SAC 2022
Windsor, Ontario – University of Windsor
- chairs: Benjamin Smith, Huapeng Wu
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Nadia Heninger
- invited speakers: Benjmain Wesolowski, Wouter Castryck
- additional topic: Theory and practice of isogeny-based cryptography
SAC 2021
Online – University of Victoria (online only)
- chairs: Riham AlTawy, Andreas Hülsing
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Sofía Celi
- invited speakers: Eyal Ronen
- additional topic: Privacy enhancing mechanisms and techniques
SAC 2020
Online – Dalhousie University (online only)
- chairs: Orr Dunkelman, Michael. J. Jacobson Jr., Colin O'Flynn
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Vanessa Teague
- invited speakers: Benjamin Smith
- additional topic: Secure elections and related cryptographic constructions
SAC 2019
Waterloo, Ontario – University of Waterloo
- chairs: Kenneth G. Paterson, Douglas Stebila
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Tetsu Iwata
- invited speakers: Craig Costello, Doug Stinson
- additional topic: Real-world cryptography/cryptographic protocols in practice
SAC 2018
Calgary, Alberta – University of Calgary
- chairs: Carlos Cid, Michael J. Jacobson Jr.
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Adi Shamir
- invited speakers: Carlisle Adams, Andrey Bogdanov, Stafford Tavares
- additional topic: Cryptography for the Internet of Things
SAC 2017
Ottawa, Ontario – University of Ottawa
- chairs: Carlisle Adams, Jan Camenisch
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Helena Handschuh
- invited speakers: Chris Peikert
- additional topic: Post-quantum cryptography
SAC 2016
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador – Memorial University of Newfoundland
- chairs: Roberto Avanzi, Howard Heys
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Douglas Stebila
- invited speakers: Francesco Regazzoni
- additional topic: Side channel, fault and related attacks on symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic primitives and their countermeasures
SAC 2015
Sackville, New Brunswick – Mount Allison University
- chairs: Orr Dunkelman, Liam Keliher
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Paul Syverson
- invited speakers: Gaëtan Leurent
- additional topic: Privacy and anonymity enhancing technologies and their analysis
SAC 2014
Montréal, Québec – Concordia University
- chairs: Antoine Joux, Amr Yousseef
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Alfred Menezes
- invited speakers: Pierrick Gaudry, Alfred Menezes, Nigel Smart
- additional topic: Algorithms for cryptography, cryptanalysis and their complexity analysis
SAC 2013
Burnaby, British Columbia – Simon Fraser University
- chairs: Tanja Lange, Kristin Lauter, Petr Lisonek
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Anne Canteaut
- invited speakers: Paulo Barreto, Antoine Joux, Douglas Stinson, Hugh Williams
- additional topic: Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography, including theory and applications of pairings
SAC 2012
Windsor, Ontario – University of Windsor
- chairs: Lars Knudsen, Huapeng Wu
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Vincent Rijmen
- invited speakers: Ian Goldberg
- additional topic: Light-weight authentication protocols
SAC 2011
Toronto, Ontario – Ryerson University
- chairs: Ali Miri, Serge Vaudenay
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Alfred Menezes
- invited speakers: Kristin Lauter
- additional topic: Cryptographic tools and methods for securing clouds
SAC 2010
Waterloo, Ontario – University of Waterloo
- chairs: Alex Biryukov, Guang Gong, Douglas Stinson
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Keith Martin
- invited speakers: Alexandra Boldyreva
- additional topic: Applications of coding theory and combinatorics in cryptography
SAC 2009
Calgary, Alberta – University of Calgary
- chairs: Michael J. Jacobson, Jr., Vincent Rijmen, Rei Safavi-Naini
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Jan Camenisch
- invited speakers: Andreas Enge
- additional topic: Privacy-enhancing cryptographic systems
SAC 2008
Sackville, New Brunswick – Mount Allison University
- chairs: Roberto Avanzi, Liam Keliher, Francesco Sica
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Jacques Patarin
- invited speakers: Joseph Silverman
- additional topic: Elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography, including theory and applications of pairings
SAC 2007
Ottawa, Ontario – University of Ottawa
- chairs: Carlisle Adams, Ali Miri, Michael Wiener
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Moti Yung
- invited speakers: Dan Bernstein
- additional topic: Innovative cryptographic defenses against malicious software
SAC 2006
Montréal, Québec – Concordia University
- chairs: Eli Biham, Amr Youssef
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Adi Shamir
- invited speakers: Serge Vaudenay
- additional topic: Side-channel analysis (DPA, DFA, Cache analysis, etc.)
SAC 2005
Kingston, Ontario – Queen's University
- chairs: Bart Preneel, Stafford Tavares
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Mike Wiener
- invited speakers: Alfred Menezes
- additional topic: Cryptographic algorithms and protocols for ubiquitous computing (sensor networks, RFID)
SAC 2004
Waterloo, Ontario – University of Waterloo
- chairs: Helena Handschuh, Anwar Hasan
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Eli Biham
- invited speakers: Yevgeniy Dodis
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for mobile (web) services
SAC 2003
Ottawa, Ontario – Carleton University
- chairs: Mitsuru Matsui, Robert J. Zuccherato
- Stafford Tavares Lecture presented by Virgil D. Gligor
- invited speakers: Nicolas Courtois
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for web services security and cryptography and security of trusted and distributed systems
SAC 2002
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador – Memorial University of Newfoundland
- chairs: Howard Heys, Kaisa Nyberg
- invited speakers: Steve Babbage, David Wagner
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for mobile and wireless network security.
At this workshop, Stafford Tavares was honoured for his vision and many years of service to the SAC workshops with the institution of an invited lecture in his name. The first Stafford Tavares Lecture took place the following year, at SAC 2003.
SAC 2001
Toronto, Ontario – Fields Institute
- chairs: Serge Vaudenay, Amr Youssef
- invited speakers: Phong Nguyen, Moti Yng
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for web/Internet security
SAC 2000
Waterloo, Ontario – University of Waterloo
- chairs: Douglas Stinson, Stafford Tavares
- invited speakers: Mihir Bellare, Dan Boneh
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for web/Internet security
SAC 1999
Kingston, Ontario – Queen's University
- chairs: Carlisle Adams, Howard Heys
- invited speakers: Mike Reiter, Miles Smid
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for web/Internet security
SAC 1998
Kingston, Ontario – Queen's University
- chairs: Henk Meijer, Stafford Tavares
- invited speakers: Eli Biham, Alfred Menezes
- additional topic: Cryptographic solutions for Internet security and secure wireless/mobile networks