UkrCrypto2026: International Conference on Cryptographic Research

September 23-25, 2026

In-person (with on-line part) conference in State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection
(Kyiv, Ukraine)

Important Dates

Conference Details:

International Conference on Cryptographic Research (UkrCrypto2026) will be held on September, 23-25, 2026 in State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Kyiv, Ukraine.

UkrCrypto2026 is a premier international conference dedicated to advancing the field of cryptographic research and its applications. This event brings together leading researchers, academics, industry professionals, and policymakers to discuss cutting-edge developments in cryptography, cybersecurity, and related technologies. With a focus on fostering innovation and collaboration, UkrCrypto2026 provides a platform for presenting novel research, sharing practical insights, and addressing global challenges in securing digital systems.

The conference will feature keynote speeches from renowned experts, technical paper presentations, panel discussions, and workshops. UkrCrypto2026 aims to highlight Ukraine's contributions to cryptographic research while promoting international cooperation in tackling emerging security threats.

Workshop topics

1. Cryptographic algorithms and protocols
2. Postquantum and quantum cryptography
3. Zero knowledge protocols
4. Blockchain technologies
5. Steganography and Information Hiding
6. Cryptography in cybersecurity
7. AI and Smart Systems in Cryptography and Security
8. Cryptography for critical infrastructure protection

Conference Committees

Steering Committee

Honorary Chairs

Prof, DSc (Tech) Oleksandr Potii, Head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection 

Prof, DSc (Law) Volodymyr Trofymenko, Deputy Head of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection 

Prof, DSc (Tech) Ivan Gorbenko, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 

Executive Chair

Prof, DSc (Tech) Volodymyr Pavlikov, Head of State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection

Program Committee

Program Committee Chair

Assoc. Prof, DSc (Tech) Semen Zhyla, Deputy Head of State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection

Program Committee Secretary

Dmytro Bondarenko, Head of Department of State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection

International Program Committee (TBC) (in Alphabet order)

• Prof. Jugoslav Ackoski, Military Academy “General Mihailo Apostolski”, North Macedonia 
• Dr Jamil Al-Azzeh, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan 
• Prof. Marek Aleksander, State Higher Vocational School in Nowy Sacz, Poland 
• Prof. Razvan Bocu, Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania 
• Assoc. Prof., Dr Daniele Bartoli, University of Perugia, Italy 
• Assoc. Prof., Dr Andrea Ferraguti, University of Turin, Italy 
• Dr Matthias Fitzi, Input Output Research, Switzerland 
• Prof. Maksim Iavich, Caucasus University, Georgia 
• Prof. Nursulu Kapalova, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan 
• Assoc. Prof., Dr Oleksandr Kholosha, University of Bergen, Norway 
• Helger Lipmaa, University of Tartu, Estonia 
• Ludovic Perret, Sorbonne University, France 
• Dmytro Savchuk, University of South Florida, USA 
• Assoc. Prof., Dr Maria Tota, University of Salerno, Italy 

Local Organizing Committee (in Alphabet order)

• Assoc. Prof, Dr Denys Bakhtiiarov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc (Tech) Serhii Buchyk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Hlib Cherepnin, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Serhii Dakov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Mykola Dobysh, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc (Tech) Emil Faure, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Assoc. Prof, Dr Andrii Fesenko, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc (Tech) Serhii Gnatyuk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Serhii Gnatiuk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Viktor Gnatyuk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine;
• Dr Anatolij Golishevsky, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Borys Horlynskyi, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Kyrylo Huliaiev, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Olha Inkarbaieva, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Denys Kolesnikov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Maksym Komarov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Volodymyr Kosharskyi, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Viktor Kotetunov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Danyil Kovalchuk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc Liudmyla Kovalchuk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Volodymyr Kozak, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Assoc. Prof, Dr Hanna Martyniuk, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Tetiana Maslennykova, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• DSc (Tech) Yevhen Morshch, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc (Tech) Roman Odarchenko, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Tetiana Okhrimenko, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Pavlo Pozdniakov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Assoc. Prof, Dr Myroslav Riabyi, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Assoc. Prof, Dr Viktoriia Sydorenko, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc (Tech) Serhii Toliupa, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Iryna Trehubenko, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Eduard Tserne, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Ivan Tsmokanych, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Dmytro Vlasenko, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Maksym Vonsovych, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Dmytro Yevhrafov, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Prof, DSc (Tech) Oleksandr Yudin, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 
• Dr Oleksii Yudin, State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection, Ukraine 

Organizing Team

State Scientific and Research Institute of Cybersecurity Technologies and Information Protection

Members

• Ihor Martyniuk 
• Nazar Zaika

Submission

All submitted materials have to be original and not submitted previously to another journal or conference. Submitted abstracts and papers will be peer-reviewed and rated by at least three independent experts. High levels of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, cause the decline of further participation of these authors in the workshop.

Workshop requires to submit abstracts (3-5 pages) and papers (at least 10 pages but not exceeding 12 pages – paper to Springer book) in English, prepared according to the Word template and macros provided by LNCS.

Papers have to follow all requirements of LNСS rules.

Accepted and presented papers will be published in “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” (Electronic ISSN 1611-3349, Print ISSN 0302-9743). The materials of LNCS series are indexed by SCOPUS, EI Compendex, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, and also submitted for consideration to the Web of Science.

Submission is free.

Abstracts and paper submission at UkrCrypto2026@gmail.com

Additional requirements

• English needs to be proofread.
• Recommended volume of scientific materials: abstracts (3-5 pages) and papers (10-12 pages).
• The paper should not have more than 5 co-authors recomended.
• Any plagiarism is not allowed, including self-plagiarism. All papers should be original.
• All figures have to be created by author and can not be copied from other sources.
• The references list should neither be too short nor too long without necessity. It is suggested that the references list be no more than 20-30 sources.
• The authors must use the results of international research in the references.
• References should mostly be recent, no more than ten years old.
• Self-citations should usually not exceed 25% of all references.
• Authors should not restrict references to a limited set of authors from their own institution. No more than 50% of citations should be from a single source.
• The material must follow the formatting rules. Special attention to formatting style of the list of references.
• Text generated by using any language models is prohibited in the paper. Paper partially generated by using language models is going to be withdrawn from consideration, as it cannot be regarded as original scientific work. Papers will be checked for language models with specific software. Decision will be made based on level of probability of using language models. Automatic translation tools are also prohibited due to their use of language models, which will be detected in our validation tool. The exception to AI usage is only for automatic grammar-checking software. You could feel free to use any grammar or spelling assistant.

Partners of UkrCrypto2026

Patronized by:

STATE SERVICE FOR SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS AN INFORMATION PROTECTION

Supported by:

Contact

 For any other questions, please contact: UkrCrypto2026@gmail.com