The submission deadline for our community’s primary dedicated research workshop—the 14th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC)—is just around the corner on July 19, 2026.
We are thrilled to be back in Europe! WAHC 2026 will be held as a post-conference workshop affiliated with ACM CCS in The Hague, Netherlands on November 19, 2026.
For this edition, we are particularly looking for papers related to FHE applications. We highly encourage submissions focused on:
- Real-world deployments of FHE
- Real-world applications enabled by compilers
- Hardware implementations of FHE schemes
- Software engineering to deploy FHE
All papers relevant to FHE applications and general FHE topics are also very welcome!)
Key Submission Details:
- Deadline: July 19, 2026
- Paper Types: Full papers (12 pages) or brief demo papers (6 pages)
- Formatting: Single PDF, double-column ACM format (sigconf template)
- Publishing: Proceedings will be published as part of the ACM CCS 2026 proceedings.
Important Links:
- Submit your paper (HotCRP): https://wahc26.hotcrp.com/
- Workshop Website: WAHC 2026 – 14th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography – Homomorphic Encryption Standardization
- Registration (via CCS): ACM CCS 2026
Feel free to send us a message or comment below if you have any questions. We look forward to your submissions!