ArcticCrypt 2025

The registration covers bus transfer to/from the airport, reception Sunday evening, coffee breaks and lunches on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Full day excursion (wildlife and glacier cruise) including light lunch on Wednesday with the boat MS Bard, and conference dinner on Thursday evening at Huset.

There are two options for registration:

1. If you want to stay at the conference hotel, the price for the hotel from Sunday July 6th to Friday July 11th will be included in the registration fee. The price for this option is 24 975 NOK (single room) and 25 975 NOK (double room).
2. If you do not want to stay at the conference hotel, you take care of your own booking for accommodation. In this case the conference fee is 8700 NOK (regular) and 6700 NOK (student).

If you will have an accompanying person who will not attend the conference, there is an option for them to join the bus transfer to/from airport, the reception Sunday and the dinner Thursday evening. This costs 2000 NOK. If they also want to attend the boat trip Wednesday, the cost is 3500 NOK.

Registration opens on November 1st, 2024.

The only way to travel to Longyearbyen is by plane from either Oslo or Tromsø in Norway. There are only a few flights per day to and from Longyearbyen each day, hence it is essential to book your flight early. The airport code for Longyearbyen is LYR, and the airlines serving the airport are SAS or Norwegian. The airport is just a few kilometres from the settlement and there are shuttle buses serving all arriving and departing flights.

Svalbard is not part of the Schengen area, so everyone travelling to Svalbard must bring their passport. There are no visa requirements when travelling to Svalbard, but note that the only way to get to Svalbard is via Norway. Please check if you need a visa to enter Norway.

ArcticCrypt 2025 welcomes submissions on any topic in cryptology at https://arcticcrypt2025.hotcrp.com/. This covers all research topics in cryptography and cryptanalysis, including but not limited to

• foundational theory and mathematics
• the design, proposal, and analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols
• secure implementation and optimization in hardware or software
• real-world aspects of cryptography and its general application

ArcticCrypt 2025 will not have official proceedings. Instead, we aim to provide an opportunity to present recent journal papers, and works that will be submitted in the future. Note that this unfortunately excludes papers that have already been published at conferences with proceedings.

There are two options for submitting papers to ArcticCrypt. The first option is through a collaboration with IACR’s new journal Communications in Cryptology (CiC) in a novel publication model. The idea is that papers accepted for publication in CiC may also be considered for presentation at ArcticCrypt.

With this option, authors are encouraged to submit their work to CiC’s issues 2 or 3 in 2024 as a regular paper, and indicate that they want the paper to be considered for ArcticCrypt 2025 by checking the appropriate box in the submission procedure.

If accepted for publication in CiC’s issue 2 or 3, the final version of these papers will automatically be forwarded to the ArcticCrypt program committee. To help in the reviewing process, the program chairs of ArcticCrypt will ask the authors of forwarded papers if they may share the reviews they received from the CiC editorial board with the ArcticCrypt program committee.

Note that ArcticCrypt will run a separate reviewing process for its submissions. Papers accepted at CiC may therefore end up not being accepted at ArcticCrypt due to the limited number of slots available at the conference.

The other option is to submit the paper directly to ArcticCrypt by September 13th 2024. Authors of a direct submission to ArcticCrypt are not subject to any restrictions with regards to future submission of their work. In particular, we encourage authors to also submit their work to a conference with formal proceedings or a journal (such as a later issue of CiC). Submissions sent directly to ArcticCrypt must adhere to the same instructions for authors as given for a CiC regular submission.

Note that at least one of the authors of a paper accepted for presentation at ArcticCrypt must be available to travel to Longyearbyen and present at the conference, regardless of whether the paper is forwarded from CiC or submitted directly to ArcticCrypt.

More information to come.