RWC 2026

March 9–11, 2026

Taipei, Taiwan

Call for Contributed Talks

Submission Server

The contributed talks committee invites talk proposals to be considered for presentation at the symposium.
The main criteria for acceptance are whether the committee believes that the proposed talk will be of interest to the RWC audience and whether the talk will be good. This audience typically has broad interests across all areas of real world cryptography, including (but not limited to):

  • new applications of cryptography
  • novel cryptographic constructs and solutions for real-world problems
  • cryptographic deployment challenges
  • making cryptography work for users
  • social and political aspects of cryptography.

Talk proposals on purely theoretical concerns are unlikely to be accepted to RWC; there are other excellent IACR venues for work of this type. As RWC does not have formal proceedings, we accept contributed talk proposals which correspond to papers that are under submission or already published elsewhere.

You are strongly encouraged to read our advice on submitting a talk proposal.

Author Notification

We plan to notify authors of decisions by Dec 22 Dec. 8, 2025. Please note that submitters will not be provided with formal reviews of their talk proposals.

Important dates

Oct 24 Oct. 10, 2025

Contributed talks submission deadline

Dec. 15, 2025

Student stipend request deadline

Dec 22 Dec. 8, 2025

Contributed talks notification

2026-03-09

Conference begins

Submission Format

Submissions must comply with the following rules:

  • Submissions must be non-anonymous.
  • Submissions must clearly specify which author will give the talk. The author identified commits to present the talk at the conference.
  • The submission abstract text must provide sufficient detail to explain what the talk will be about.
  • Submissions must explain why the proposed talk is a good fit for Real World Crypto.
  • Submissions must include an abstract in pdf format of a maximum of three pages + references
  • Submissions can include supplementary materials such as full papers (but with a maximum 10 pages, including references, appendices, etc.), the expected presentation slides, or a link to a previous recording of a talk on the topic. Supplementary materials must be provided in pdf format or a link to a publicly-accessible video (such as on YouTube)
  • We also request a brief biography of the proposed speaker with a focus on their public speaking experience also to audiences beyond cryptography academics; this could include industry, outreach activities in schools, third-sector/NGOs, informal settings or interdisciplinary audiences. We strongly encourage submitting links to videos of past presentations by the speaker as this will help us assess how engaging their presentation style would be in meeting RWC’s goals.
Submissions that violate any of the above rules will be rejected.

Program Committee

Program co-chairs

rwc2026programchairs@iacr.org

General co-chairs

rwc2026@iacr.org