RWC 2026

March 9–11, 2026

Taipei, Taiwan

Affiliated Events

All affiliated events will take place in the Humanities and Social Science Building (HSSB) of Academia Sinica in Nangang district in the South-East of Taipei City. They will run from 9:00 until 17:30 each day.

The 4th Annual Real World Post-Quantum Cryptography Workshop (RWPQC 2026)

The Real World PQC (RWPQC) Workshop aims to bring together the industry, academia and standardization bodies to explore the tasks ahead on the integration of post-quantum algorithms to networks and systems we use today.

Real-World MPC Asia 2026

The workshop RW MPC Asia 2026: Real-World Multiparty Computation in the Asia-Pacific will bring together researchers, practitioners, implementers and policy makers focused on secure multi-party computation (MPC) and its deployment in real‐world systems. While much of MPC research has historically been theoretical, this event emphasises practical deployment, tooling, standards, governance, and policy aspects. Drawing on the successful model of RWMPC 2025, which sought contributed talks on real-world MPC applications, standardisation, implementation, verification and legal/policy implications.

The 4th Annual Open Source Cryptography Workshop (OSCW 2026)

OSCW brings together cryptographic library developers, security engineers, software developers, and cryptographers working in the open source community. The goal is to create dialogue around the opportunities and challenges surrounding the production, maintenance, and usage of cryptographic projects and libraries.

Co-located Events

The 5th Annual FHE.org conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE.org 2026)

FHE.org is a community of researchers and developers interested in advancing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and other secure computation techniques.
Join us for a day of interesting presentations, invited talks, poster presentations, and our very own after-party.

Call for Affiliated and Co-located Events

For the first time, RWC is inviting proposals for affiliated events. Just like for previous editions for RWC, we also invite proposals for co-located events. In the following we describe the differences and explain how to submit proposals.

Call for Affiliated Events

For affiliated events, the IACR is taking care of

Information for Submitters

All affiliated events will be held on the campus of Academia Sinica and take place before RWC, on March 7–8.

Organizers of affiliated events are in charge of all aspects of the scientific program.

Registration fees go to the IACR to cover expenses for the venue, meals, and local organization. Any additional expenses (for example for invited speakers or printing proceedings) need to be covered by the event organizers from other sources, for example, sponsorship.

Participants registered for affiliated events on a particular day can attend any affiliated event on that day (and even move between events if they like).

The organizers of the accepted affiliated events are expected to maintain an updated website (which will be linked from the RWC 2026 website), containing all relevant information for participants.

Submission Format for Affiliated Event Proposals

Please send proposals for affiliated events by e-mail to the Workshop Chair <rwc2026workshops@iacr.org> by November 1, 2025 using the subject line RWC 2026 affiliated event proposal.
In the proposal please indicate the following:

  1. Name (and possible acronym) of the event
  2. Names and contact information of the organizers
  3. Length of event (1-2 days); if 1 day, indicate flexibility for dates
  4. A proposed format (workshop with submitted/invited talks, tutorial, panel, etc.) and potential speakers (if applicable, not complete, and no commitment)
  5. Abstract summarizing the proposed event and its justification
  6. In the case of a submission process:
  7. Estimated number of attendees total and an expected number of student attendees
  8. List of specific potential attendees (not complete, and no commitment); this will help coordinate timing of events that might overlap in audience
  9. A one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications, including research and conference/workshop organizing experience
  10. Funding sources that may be used (and for what purposes)
  11. Information of previous similar events (incl. organizational information such as attendance number), if applicable
  12. Link to draft website (if exists)

Evaluation Criteria and Notification

Given the limited amount of conference rooms available, events will be selected based on their novelty, importance, and interest that they are expected to have in the RWC community. The agreement of leading members of the community to engage with the event (for example, as speakers or committee members) will be taken into account.

The decision about acceptance as RWC 2026 affiliated event will be made by November 15.

Call for Co-located Events

Other than for affiliated events, each co-located event is responsible for organizing their own

The RWC organizers will however provide web publicity for your event and promote it to the RWC attendees.

Information for Submitters

Co-located events should be scheduled right before or right after RWC and should ideally be held in or close to Taipei. The dates of co-located events must not overlap with the dates of RWC.

The proposal submitters need to identify a topic and decide on the format, and upon acceptance coordinate the program/speakers.

All costs (for example, costs of the program, reimbursements to invited speakers, room bookings, internet, teas/coffees, or printing proceedings) fall into the responsibility of the individual organizers of co-located events.

The organizers of the accepted co-located events are expected to maintain an updated website (which will be linked from the RWC 2026 website), containing all relevant information for participants.

Submission Format for Co-Located Event Proposals

Please send proposals for co-located events by e-mail to the Workshop Chair <rwc2026workshops@iacr.org> by February 1, 2026 using the subject line RWC 2026 co-located event proposal.
In the proposal please indicate the following:

  1. Name (and possible acronym) of the event
  2. Names and contact information of the organizers
  3. Which date
  4. Which location have you booked
  5. A proposed format (workshop with submitted/invited talks, tutorial, panel, etc.) and potential speakers (if applicable)
  6. Abstract summarizing the proposed event and its justification
  7. In the case of a submission process:
    • Potential committee members
    • A draft of the relevant call (including expected dates such as submission deadline, notification, etc.)
  8. Estimated number of attendees total and an expected number of student attendees.
  9. List of specific potential attendees (not complete, and no commitment) – This will help coordinate timing of events
  10. A one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications, including research
  11. Information of previous similar events (incl. organizational information such as attendance number), if applicable. Link to draft website (if exists)

Notification

The decision about acceptance as RWC 2026 co-located event will be made within two weeks after receiving a proposal.