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AfricaCrypt2027

Technical Program

Conference Program

Single track. Every attendee sees every talk. Use the tabs to switch between days.

All times GMT (UTC+0). Programme subject to change.

Day 1 — 7 July 2027

  1. Registration

    Registration and welcome coffee

    This is a note

  2. Opening

    Opening remarks

    General Chairs

  3. Keynote

    Homomorphic Encryption Leaves the Lab: Lessons From Three Deployments

    Léa Fontaine (ENS de Lyon)

  4. Break

    Coffee break

  5. Session

    Session 1 · Lattices and Homomorphic Encryption

    Chair: Claire Dubois

  6. Session

    Contributed talk

  7. Session

    Contributed talk

  8. Session

    Contributed talk

  9. Break

    Lunch

  10. Session

    Session 2 · Symmetric Cryptography

    Chair: Hiroshi Tanaka

  11. Session

    Contributed talk

  12. Session

    Invited short talk: standardisation update

    Marcus Adeyemi (University of Cape Town)

  13. Break

    Coffee break

  14. Keynote

    Small Devices, Real Adversaries: The State of Lightweight Cryptanalysis

    Marcus Adeyemi (University of Cape Town)

  15. Session

    Business meeting (open to all attendees)

    Steering Committee

  16. Social

    Welcome reception

    At the conference hotel. Included in every registration.

Day 2 — 8 July 2027

  1. Keynote

    Transparent Proofs at Scale: Where the Constants Actually Go

    Nadia El-Mansouri (EPFL)

  2. Break

    Coffee break

  3. Session

    Session 3 · Zero-Knowledge and Secure Computation

    Chair: Elena Costa

  4. Session

    Contributed talk

  5. Session

    Contributed talk

  6. Session

    Open problems, lightning round

    Chair: Elena Costa

  7. Break

    Lunch

  8. Session

    Session 4 · Threshold and Distributed Cryptography

    Chair: Julia Hoffmann

  9. Session

    Contributed talk

  10. Session

    Panel: cryptography for low-bandwidth settings

    Moderator: Amina Diallo

  11. Break

    Coffee break

  12. Keynote

    Threshold Cryptography for the Rest of Us

    Kenji Watanabe (NTT Research)

  13. Session

    Rump session

    Chair: volunteers welcome

  14. Social

    Conference dinner

    Separate ticket. One guest pass may be purchased during registration.

Day 3 — 9 July 2027

  1. Keynote

    After the Standardisation: Open Problems in Post-Quantum Cryptography

    Priya Raghavan (IIT Madras)

  2. Break

    Coffee break

  3. Session

    Session 5 · Post-Quantum Cryptography

    Chair: George Papadopoulos

  4. Session

    Contributed talk

  5. Session

    Implementation showcase

    Sofia Reyes (IMDEA Software)

  6. Break

    Lunch

  7. Session

    Session 6 · Cryptographic Engineering

    Chair: Hana Novák

  8. Session

    Working session: constant-time programming

    Sofia Reyes (IMDEA Software)

  9. Break

    Coffee break

  10. Session

    Community roadmap discussion

    Chair: Robert Nkemelu

  11. Closing

    Best paper award and closing remarks

    Program Chairs