About us

HistoCrypt 2026 is an international conference focusing on all aspects of historical cryptography, cryptanalysis, and the history of cryptology from ancient times to the contemporary era. It addresses topics such as encryption methods, cipher machines, linguistic aspects, the influence of cryptology on history, and the use of AI in historical cryptology. The conference invites regular and short papers and encourages submissions from early-stage researchers.

Important Dates

Fri, Dec 5, 2025

Paper Submission Opens

Sat, Jan 31, 2026

Paper Submission Deadline

Fri, Apr 3, 2026

Notification of Acceptance

Thu, Apr 30, 2026

Camera Ready Manuscripts

Mon, Jun 22, 2026

Main Conference

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Use(s) and practice(s) of cryptography in the military, diplomacy, business, and other areas

Encryption methods and their evolution over time

Other techniques of information dissimulation (various steganographic techniques: invisible ink, steganographic printing, knot codes, …)

Cipher machines

Roots of modern ciphers in historical cryptology

Automatic methods including AI in the field of historical cryptology

Linguistic aspects of cryptology

Cryptanalysis of historical cryptograms

Cryptanalytic methods and algorithms applied to historical cryptograms

Unsolved historical cryptograms

Cryptographers and cryptanalysts over history

Influence of cryptography on the course of history

Cryptology within the history of sciences

Representations of cryptology (literature, movies, education, …)

Call for Papers Description

We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: regular papers up to 10 pages on substantial, original, and unpublished research, and short papers up to 4 pages on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, tutorials, or opinion pieces. All submissions will receive at least two double-blind reviews.