WAHC 2026 has been formally accepted as an official workshop to ACM CCS (CCS’26) in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Submission
Submission Deadline: July 19, 2026 (anywhere in world)
Acceptance Notification: Sept. 25,2026
Workshop: Nov. 19, 2026
Proceedings will be published to ACM Digital Library.
REGISTRATION
The workshop organizers and the ACM expect at least one author of every accepted paper to attend the workshop in person.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
Secure computation is becoming a key feature of future information systems. Distributed network applications and cloud architectures are at danger because lots of personal consumer data is aggregated in all kinds of formats and for various purposes. Industry and consumer electronics companies are facing massive threats like theft of intellectual property and industrial espionage. Public infrastructure has to be secured against sabotage and manipulation. A possible solution is encrypted computing: Data can be processed on remote, possibly insecure resources, while program code and data is encrypted all the time. This allows to outsource the computation of confidential information independently from the trustworthiness or the security level of the remote system. The technologies and techniques discussed in this workshop are a key to extend the range of applications that can be securely outsourced.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers with practitioners and industry to present, discuss and to share the latest progress in the field. We want to exchange ideas that address real-world problems with practical approaches and solutions.
AUDIENCE
Professionals, researchers and practitioners in the area of computer security and applied cryptography with an interest in practical applications of homomorphic encryption, encrypted computing, functional encryption and secure function evaluation, private information retrieval and searchable encryption.
AGENDA (TBD)
ACCEPTED PAPERS
- Hash Function Constructions from Lightweight Block Ciphers for Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Olivier Bernard and Marc Joye (Zama)
- Compression And Decompression Under FHE Using Error-Correcting Codes and Copy-And-Recurse, Hayim Shaul (IBM Research), Adi Akavia (University of Haifa and TU Darmstadt), and Ofer Shayevitz (Tel Aviv University)
- Classification in the Dark: Performance Insights and Novel Methods for Homomorphic Binary Networks, Lukas Horn, Lennart Svoboda, Simon Engel, Thomas Prantl, and Samuel Kounev (University of Würzburg)
- Fine-Grained and Runtime-Configurable Precision for Exact FHE Inference, WunTing Lin and Ja-Ling Wu (National Taiwan University)
- A Framework for Automatic Conversion of Neural Networks to Homomorphic Equivalents, Dennis van der Werff, Francesco Regazzoni, and Giorgos Tasopoulos (University of Amsterdam)
- FLHyHE: Federated Learning with Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption, Ivan Costa, Ivone Amorim, Eva Maia, and Isabel Praça (GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto)
- HerreDB: An Encrypted Database Supporting Multi-Result Rapid Retrieval Based on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Xiaodong Li, Chiye Zhao, Lin Yang, Mingyuan Ma, and Xin Jin (Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute) and Runyuan Jing (Xidian University)
LIST OF TOPICS
- Software architectures for encrypted applications
- Platform and system integration for encrypted applications
- Algorithmic primitives for encrypted applications
- Hybrid (partly encrypted) applications
- Hardware implementations of encrypted computing
- Implementation of homomorphic encryption schemes and multiparty computation
- Practical performance evaluations of encrypted computing
- Practical aspects of functional encryption
- Privacy-preserving set operations
- Secure information sharing
- Circuit transformation of algorithms
- Obfuscation techniques
- Encrypted search schemes
- Encrypted e-payment solutions
- Encrypted financial transactions
- Encrypted applications in bio-informatics
- Encrypted computing for social good
SUBMISSION
Submissions are through HotCRP
Papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library, with a specific ISBN.
A paper submitted to WAHC must be written in English and be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or any identifying citations. It should begin with a title and a short abstract. Submissions must be single PDF files, no more than 12 pages long in double-column ACM format (the sigconf template from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, with a simpler version at https://github.com/acmccs/format), including references and appendices. Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format. Submissions not following the required format may be rejected without review. We also encourage authors to submit Demos which are limited to 6 pages and feature an oral presentation with an extensive code review. Authors are invited to submit their work via the HotCRP submission server.
Please note – submitters should ignore the message on https://github.com/acmccs/format that the template is obsolete, and that this *is* the template to be used for WAHC
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Flavio Bergamaschi, Optalysys
Kurt Rohloff, Duality Technologies
CONTACT / QUESTIONS?
contact@HomomorphicEncryption.org
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBA)
Program Co-Chairs
Kurt Rohloff (Duality Technologies / NJIT)
Flavio Bergamaschi (Optalysys)
Program Committee and Reviewers
- Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi (Google)
- Andreea Alexandru (Duality Technologies)
- Song Bian (Beihang University)
- Vishnu Boddeti (Michigan State University)
- Jean-Philippe Bossuat (Ideal Rings Lab)
- Ganyuan Cao (Télécom Paris)
- Sergiu Carpov (Arcium)
- Sylvain Chatel (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
- Jim Choncholas (Google)
- Pierre-Emmanuel Clet (CEA-List, Université Paris-Saclay)
- Jack Crawford (Optalysys)
- Benjamin Curtis (Zama)
- Nir Drucker (IBM Research)
- Jordan Fréry (Zama)
- Robin Geelen (KU Leuven)
- Antonio Guimarães (IMDEA Software Institute)
- Gamze Gürsoy (University of Cambridge)
- Intak Hwang (Seoul National University)
- Ilia Iliashenko (Inversed Tech)
- Miran Kim (Hanyang University)
- Christian Knabenhans (EPFL)
- Joon-Woo Lee (Chung-Ang University)
- Zeyu Liu (Yale University)
- Qian Lou (University of Central Florida)
- Chiara Marcolla (Technology Innovation Institute)
- Florent Michel (Optalysys)
- Johannes Mono (Ruhr University Bochum)
- Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira (Unicamp)
- Rachel Player (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Valentin Reyes Häusler (University of Oldenburg)
- Oana Stan (CEA-List, Université Paris-Saclay)
- Alexander Viand (Belfort Labs / University of Cambridge)
- Christian Weinert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Han Xia (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)