Modern Cryptography and Information Security for Secure Digital Systems (MC-IS-SDS 2026)
Aim and Scope
Modern cryptography plays a central role in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity,
authenticity, and privacy of digital information in today’s interconnected environments. As
digital systems continue to evolve rapidly, including cloud and edge computing platforms,
IoT infrastructures, AI-enabled services, and distributed applications, there is an increasing
demand for efficient, secure, scalable, and quantum-resilient cryptographic techniques that
can support trustworthy operations across diverse computing environments.
This special session aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry to present recent advances in modern cryptography and information
security for secure digital systems. The session welcomes contributions on theoretical
foundations, algorithmic design, implementation aspects, performance optimization, and
security evaluation of cryptographic primitives and protocols, as well as their applications
in emerging computing environments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Symmetric cryptography and block cipher design
- Public-key cryptography and cryptographic protocols
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Cryptographic hash functions and stream ciphers
- Lightweight cryptography for embedded and IoT systems
- Cryptographic engineering and implementation
- Diffusion layers and MDS matrix constructions
- Boolean functions, S-box design, and algebraic methods in cryptography
- Secure multiparty computation and privacy-preserving techniques
- Blockchain and distributed ledger security
- Applied cryptography for cloud, edge, AI, and emerging digital platforms
- Security architectures for secure digital infrastructures
- Cryptanalysis and security evaluation of cryptographic primitives
- Network and system security
- Cloud, edge, and distributed system security
- Security and privacy in artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Adversarial machine learning and trustworthy AI
- Data security and privacy protection techniques
- Security for Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
Submission Guideline
https://kse2026.kse-conferences.org/call-for-papers/
Session Organizers
Assoc. Prof. Tran Thi Luong
- Affiliation: Academy of Cryptography Techniques, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Email: luongtran@actvn.edu.vn; luongtranhong@gmail.com
Dr. Nguyen Van Long
- Affiliation: Academy of Cryptography Techniques, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Email: nvlong1982@actvn.edu.vn; nvlong.bcy@gmail.com
Dr. Nguyen Trong Bac
- Affiliation: Institute of Fundamental and Applied Research, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
- Email: bacnt2008@gmail.com
Short Bio
Assoc. Prof. Tran Thi Luong received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cryptographic Engineering. She has extensive research experience in cryptography, coding theory, and information security. She has served as a co-chair of special sessions at KSE 2023, VICRIS 2024, and VICRIS 2025, and has been actively involved in organizing international scientific events in the areas of cryptography and cybersecurity. Her research interests include cryptography, coding theory, and information security.
Dr. Nguyen Van Long received his Engineer’s degree in Information Security of Telecommunication Systems from the FSO Academy, Russian Federation, in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree from the FSO Academy, Russian Federation, in 2015. He is currently with Academy of Cryptography Techniques, Vietnam. His research interests include cryptography, coding theory, and information security.
Dr. Nguyen Trong Bac received his Ph.D. degree in the United States. He is currently an outstanding researcher at Institute of Fundamental and Applied Research, Duy Tan University, Vietnam. His research interests include quantum information and coding theory.