WDSC 2026
Call for presentations
WDSC 2026 invites concise, non-archival presentation proposals on cryptographic mechanisms for secure collaboration without a single trusted controller.
Submission Deadline: 1 October 2026, 23:59 (AoE)
Monday, 7 December 2026 · Hong Kong
We welcome non-anonymous extended abstracts and talk proposals covering new or ongoing research, implementation experience, negative results, migration and standardization gaps, open problems, and position statements. As WDSC 2026 is non-archival, previously published or concurrently submitted work is welcome when its status is clearly disclosed. Selected contributions may be presented as lightning talks, posters, or moderated discussion prompts.
Topics
Include, but are not limited to:
- Control and authorization. Threshold signatures, MPC signing, distributed key management, wallets, custody, and decentralized governance.
- Private participation and authentication. Anonymous authentication, anonymous credentials, private tokens, revocation, abuse resistance, and decentralized identity.
- Verification and accountability. Zero-knowledge proofs, SNARKs, proof aggregation, verifiable computation, auditability without disclosure, and verification of private state.
Submit
WDSC 2026 solicits non-archival extended abstracts and talk proposals for lightning talks, posters, and moderated discussion prompts. Contributions may describe new technical results, ongoing work, implementation experience, negative results, standardization or migration gaps, open problems, or position statements.
- Length and format: Submit a non-anonymous PDF of one to three pages, excluding references.
- Authorship and scope: Name all authors, identify the author expected to present the work, and explain the contribution’s connection to decentralized secure collaboration.
- Publication status: Previously published, concurrently submitted, and ongoing work is welcome when its status is clearly disclosed; provide a citation or link when available.
- Supplementary material: You may include a full paper, preprint, implementation, demonstration, or recording of an earlier presentation. Reviewers are not required to examine supplementary material.
- Selection: Decisions will consider workshop fit, technical soundness and clarity, discussion value, presentation suitability, and overall program balance.
- Attendance: The identified presenter is expected to attend and present in person unless the organizers approve an exceptional arrangement.
For submission and related questions, contact yingfei.yan@uca.fr or any organizer and use the subject line “WDSC 2026 Submission”.
Important dates
Important dates
Abstract submission
Notification
Final title and abstract
Workshop
Submission portal
The submission URL and exact deadline time zone will be posted here when confirmed.