The 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2025) will be held in Munich, Germany, on 23–26 June 2025. ACNS is an annual conference focusing on current developments that advance the areas of applied cryptography, cyber security (including network and computer security) and privacy. The goal is to present both academic research works and advances on industrial and technical frontiers.

Submissions may focus on the modeling, design, analysis, development, deployment, integration, maintenance performance, and usability of algorithms, protocols, standards, implementations, devices, as well as systems, standing in relation with applied cryptography, cyber security and privacy and advancing or bringing new insights to the state of the art.

Areas of interest for ACNS 2025 (in alphabetical order) include but are not limited to:

     Applied cryptography
     Artificial intelligence for security 
     Automated security analysis 
     Authentication and biometric security and privacy 
     Blockchain security and privacy 
     Cloud security and privacy
     Critical infrastructure security and privacy 
     Cryptanalysis
     Cryptographic primitives and protocols 
     Data protection
     Distributed security and consensus protocols 
     Email, app and web security and privacy
     Future Internet security and privacy
     Lightweight cryptography
     Identity management
     Internet fraud and cybercrime 
     Internet-of-Things security and privacy 
     Malicious code and unsolicited software 
     Mobile and wireless security 
     Network security protocols 
     Post-quantum cryptography
     Privacy and anonymity, privacy-enhancing technologies 
     Secure electronic voting 
     Security and privacy metrics 
     Security and privacy of systems based on ML and AI 
     Side-channel analysis and physical attacks 
     Systems security and privacy 
     Trust management and trustworthy computing in networks or systems 
     Usable security and privacy 

Besides the main conference, ACNS also seeks workshop proposals. Each satellite workshop will provide a forum to address a specific topic at the forefront of cybersecurity research. Papers accepted at the workshops will have post-proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series as well.

ACNS gives the best student paper award, with 1500 EUR prize sponsored by Springer, to encourage promising students to publish their best results at this venue. Any paper with a student as an author is eligible for this award. In addition, ACNS gives the best workshop paper award, with 500 EUR prize sponsored by Springer.