Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT)

Title

Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT)

ISSN (proceedings)

2184-7711

Publisher

SCITEPRESS — Science and Technology Publications, Lda, Portugal

Organiser

INSTICC — Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

Frequency

Annual (one proceedings volume per conference edition)

Subject areas

Computer science — security, cryptography, privacy, data protection

Peer review

Yes — conference papers peer-reviewed (double-blind review typical of the series)

Access model

Conference proceedings; no article processing charge

Impact Factor

Not applicable — proceedings series, none claimed

Overview

The Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography — known throughout the research community by its acronym SECRYPT — is the published record of an annual international conference devoted to all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security and applied cryptography. Each edition's proceedings volume carries the ISSN 2184-7711 and is published by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda.

The conference is organised by INSTICC, the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, and in recent editions has been held as a standalone annual event drawing several hundred delegates. The 17th edition took place in July 2020 and the 23rd edition was scheduled for July 2026 in Porto, Portugal — a numbering that traces the series back to the mid-2000s.

SECRYPT's programme centres on sharing novel research on security technology: the application of security mechanisms, the implementation of secure systems, cryptographic techniques, and lessons learned from real deployments. It brings together engineers, computer scientists and researchers from academia and industry.

What kind of publication this is

This title is a conference proceedings series, not a journal — a distinction the profile states explicitly because aggregator sites sometimes display it with journal-like metadata. There are no monthly or quarterly issues; there is one proceedings volume per conference edition, containing the peer-reviewed papers accepted for that year's event.

That classification determines what metrics and charges apply. No journal Impact Factor is claimed for the series, and there is no article processing charge: authors participate through conference registration, and accepted papers are published in the proceedings volume under an ISBN reference for that edition, with individual papers assigned DOIs through CrossRef, of which SCITEPRESS is a member.

Citation practice should reference the edition — for example, the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2022 — rather than citing the series as if it were a periodical.

Aims and scope

SECRYPT's scope covers the full spectrum of information security and cryptography. The conference theme, as stated by the organisers, focuses on sharing novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security and applied cryptography — including the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned from practice.

Typical topic areas include cryptographic algorithms and protocols, encryption, authentication and access control, network and systems security, security architectures, privacy-enhancing technologies, applied cryptography in emerging domains, security evaluation and testing, and case studies of secure-system deployment. The programme balances foundational cryptographic research with applied security engineering.

The event is designed as a meeting point for both theory and practice: engineers and computer scientists present implementations and field experience alongside researchers presenting new models and proofs.

Publication details

Proceedings volumes are published by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda, under ISSN 2184-7711. Each edition appears under its own ISBN reference — for example, the 17th edition's proceedings (SECRYPT 2020, edited by Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Mohammad Obaidat and Jalel Ben-Othman) carry the series ISSN on the title page, and the 19th edition (SECRYPT 2022, held 11–13 July 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal) ran to 722 pages in its print volume.

The conference is organised by INSTICC, with logistics support from Science and Technology Events, Lda (SCITEVENTS). The conference secretariat can be reached at secrypt.secretariat@insticc.org, and the conference web presence is hosted under secrypt.scitevents.org.

Print-on-demand editions of the proceedings are distributed through partners such as Curran Associates, while the digital versions are hosted in SCITEPRESS's digital library with DOI assignment per paper.

History

The edition numbering tells the series' story: the 17th International Conference on Security and Cryptography took place in July 2020, and the 23rd was planned for July 2026 in Porto, Portugal — consistent with an annual series originating in the mid-2000s. For much of its history SECRYPT was held as part of ICETE, the International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, a larger umbrella event gathering several related conferences and, in some years, more than 600 delegates.

Under the ICETE umbrella, SECRYPT editions were held in venues such as Lisbon, Portugal (2016), Colmar, France (2015), Madrid, Spain (2017) and Porto, Portugal (2018). In its more recent form the conference has run as a standalone annual event — the 22nd edition in Bilbao, Spain (11–13 June 2025) and the 23rd in Porto, Portugal (16–18 July 2026) — integrated into a set of co-located related events.

This evolution from a track within a joint conference to a mature standalone event mirrors the growth of security and cryptography as a research field in its own right over the past two decades.

Editorial process and peer review

Papers submitted to SECRYPT go through peer review by the conference's programme committee before acceptance; the INSTICC-run conferences in this family use a double-blind-style review process with international programme committees, and authors submit through the online submission platform with confirmation by e-mail.

Accepted complete papers are published in the conference proceedings under an ISBN reference, in both print and digital form. Every paper in the SCITEPRESS digital library receives a DOI through CrossRef. Selected and extended versions of presented work may additionally be invited for revised publication in book form — a practice visible across the INSTICC conference family.

The proceedings reflect the authors' opinions and are published to ensure timely dissemination of the presented research.

Indexing, abstracting and metrics

As SCITEPRESS conference proceedings, SECRYPT papers are distributed through the SCITEPRESS digital library with DOI registration, and the volumes are carried by print distributors serving the academic market. Authors and librarians should verify the abstracting and indexing coverage of the specific edition they need, since database coverage can vary by year.

No journal Impact Factor applies to this proceedings series and none is claimed in this profile. Series-level citation indicators that journal-oriented databases occasionally attach to proceedings titles describe citations to the proceedings corpus; they are not journal metrics and should not be presented as such.

For research evaluation, the meaningful units are the individual paper and its citations, and the reputation of the conference venue within the security research community.

Open access and article processing charges

There is no article processing charge for publishing in the SECRYPT proceedings. The publication model is the standard conference model: authors register for the conference, present their work, and accepted papers appear in the proceedings.

The proceedings are commercial publications available through SCITEPRESS and its distribution partners. Authors wishing to share their work more widely should consult SCITEPRESS's self-archiving provisions and their own institutional repository policies.

Readership and audience

The audience includes security researchers, cryptographers, systems and network engineers, privacy researchers, and industry practitioners working on secure-system design and deployment. The conference explicitly aims to bring together engineers, computer scientists and world-renowned experts and researchers.

Because the event is integrated with related conferences in its recent standalone form — gatherings of several hundred delegates across co-located events — attendees also benefit from cross-disciplinary exposure to neighbouring fields such as e-business and telecommunications security.

Author guidance

Authors should consult the current call for papers on the official conference site for deadlines, tracks and formatting requirements. SECRYPT distinguishes regular (complete) papers from shorter contributions such as position papers; each category has its own submission and notification dates, so choosing the right category matters.

Submissions must follow the publisher's templates and guidelines, and the organisers advise authors to avoid excessive self-citation and inflated author lists — standard expectations of a peer-reviewed venue. All submissions go through the online platform, with automatic confirmation on successful submission.

Strong submissions combine a clear security problem statement with a rigorous treatment — whether that is a cryptographic construction with analysis, a systems paper with implementation and evaluation, or a lessons-learned paper grounded in real deployment experience.

Citing and discovering the proceedings

Cite by edition: Proceedings of the [Nth] International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), year, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda; series ISSN 2184-7711; include the edition ISBN and paper DOI where available.

Discovery routes include the SCITEPRESS digital library, the conference website's proceedings listings, library catalogues under the ISSN or edition ISBNs, and print distributors such as Curran Associates and proceedings.com that carry the volumes with tables of contents.

Title disambiguation

Several distinct venues share 'security and cryptography' in their names, and they must not be conflated. This profile covers the INSTICC/SCITEPRESS SECRYPT series (ISSN 2184-7711) — not, for example, the Springer-published 'Security and Cryptography for Networks' (SCN) conference held in Amalfi, Italy, nor the SPACE conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography Engineering. The ISSN, the SCITEPRESS imprint and the INSTICC organisation identify the correct series.

Within the series itself, note the historical connection to ICETE: older citations may describe SECRYPT as part of the International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, while recent editions are standalone events. Both refer to the same continuing series.

Common misconceptions

First, the title is sometimes listed as a journal with an H-index and SJR-style metrics. It is a proceedings series; those database artefacts should not be mistaken for journal indicators.

Second, the acronym SECRYPT is occasionally confused with encryption products or protocols of similar name. In scholarly publishing it denotes this specific INSTICC conference series.

Third, because editions have been held across many European cities and under the ICETE umbrella, newcomers sometimes treat different editions as different conferences. The numbering — 17th in 2020, 23rd in 2026 — confirms a single continuous series.

Frequently asked questions

• What is SECRYPT? The International Conference on Security and Cryptography, an annual peer-reviewed conference on security, privacy and applied cryptography, with proceedings published by SCITEPRESS.
• What is the proceedings ISSN? 2184-7711.
• Who publishes and organises it? Published by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda; organised by INSTICC.
• Is it a journal? No — a conference proceedings series. No journal Impact Factor applies.
• How long has it run? Annually since the mid-2000s; the 17th edition was in 2020 and the 23rd was planned for 2026 in Porto, Portugal.
• Was it part of ICETE? For much of its history SECRYPT was held as part of ICETE, the International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications; recent editions run as a standalone event.
• Is there an article processing charge? No — the conference registration model applies.
• Do papers get DOIs? Yes — SCITEPRESS is a CrossRef member and assigns a DOI to every paper in its digital library.
• How do I contact the organisers? Through the conference secretariat at secrypt.secretariat@insticc.org or the official site secrypt.scitevents.org.
• How do I cite the proceedings? By edition, with the series ISSN 2184-7711, the edition ISBN and the paper DOI.

For librarians and archivists

Catalogue the series under ISSN 2184-7711, publisher SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda, as conference proceedings with per-edition ISBNs. Note the ICETE relationship for older editions so that holdings records reflect the joint-conference context where applicable.

Edition-level records with dates and venues — e.g., SECRYPT 2020 (17th), SECRYPT 2022 (19th, Lisbon, 11–13 July 2022, 722 pages) — provide the most useful access points for patrons.

For authors evaluating fit

SECRYPT suits security and cryptography work that benefits from a broad, application-aware audience: cryptographic techniques, security architectures, privacy technologies and deployment lessons. It is a venue where a systems-security paper and a cryptographic-protocol paper can appear in the same programme, which suits interdisciplinary contributions.

Authors should check the current edition's tracks and deadlines on the official site, choose between regular and position-paper categories deliberately, and verify indexing expectations for their institution's requirements before submitting.

SECRYPT among security venues

Security researchers choose among a crowded landscape: large general conferences, specialised cryptographic venues, systems-security symposiums and a long tail of workshops. SECRYPT's position in that landscape is that of a broad, annual, European-organised conference that welcomes the full span from cryptographic theory to deployed-system experience. That breadth matters for a particular kind of paper — work that crosses the theory-practice boundary, such as a protocol analysed and implemented, a privacy mechanism evaluated in a real service, or a standards-relevant attack with engineering lessons. Such papers can be homeless at narrowly scoped venues: too applied for a pure-theory audience, too formal for a pure-practice one. A generalist security conference with an international programme committee offers them a natural readership of both communities.

The conference's INSTICC setting also shapes its character. INSTICC events are run with professional logistics, co-located related conferences and a proceedings pipeline through SCITEPRESS with DOI registration for every paper — infrastructure that gives a mid-sized conference the bibliographic stability of a larger one. Papers remain findable, citable and purchasable as part of a numbered proceedings volume years later, which is not true of every workshop or symposium in the field. For early-career researchers, that combination — a genuinely international audience, formal proceedings with persistent identifiers, and a scope wide enough to accommodate interdisciplinary security work — is the practical case for considering the venue.

Themes across recent editions

Reading across recent editions shows the field's centre of gravity moving while the conference's core stays constant. Cryptographic fundamentals — symmetric and public-key constructions, protocols, formal analysis — remain present in every programme, because they are the discipline's foundation. Around them, successive editions give growing space to the security of networked and distributed systems, privacy and data protection in an era of regulation, applied cryptography for constrained and embedded devices, and the security implications of new computing platforms. The organisers' own framing stresses lessons learned and system implementation alongside novel research, and the programmes reflect that balance: experience reports and evaluations sit beside constructions and proofs.

That balance is a deliberate editorial stance worth understanding before submitting. A paper reporting only that a system was built, without analysis, evaluation or transferable lessons, underuses the venue; so does a purely theoretical result presented without any account of why practitioners should care. The strongest SECRYPT contributions tend to state a concrete security problem, treat it rigorously, and close the loop with implementation, measurement or deployment reflection. Authors who write to that pattern — problem, rigour, evidence — match the conference's stated identity as a forum where engineers, computer scientists and researchers exchange both ideas and experience.

Closing note

In summary, the Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography are the annual, peer-reviewed record of SECRYPT, published by SCITEPRESS under ISSN 2184-7711 and organised by INSTICC. Readers who keep that identity firmly in mind — proceedings series, not journal; conference registration, not an article processing charge; edition-level citation, not volume-and-issue citation — will use the volumes correctly and find in them a broad, practice-aware record of security and cryptography research from the mid-2000s to the present day. From its years within the ICETE joint conference to its recent standalone editions in Bilbao and Porto, the series has maintained a consistent editorial bargain: rigorous peer review, formal proceedings with persistent identifiers, and a programme that deliberately mixes cryptographic foundations with the engineering reality of securing real systems. That combination explains its longevity, and it is the standard against which prospective authors should judge the fit of their own work before submitting to a future edition of the conference.

One final practical note for readers discovering this series through a search engine or an aggregator profile: always click through to the edition itself. The value of a proceedings series lives at edition level — in a specific year's programme, its editors, its venue and its table of contents — and the series-level page is only a doorway. Checking the edition's own proceedings record, with its ISBN, its editors and its DOI-assigned papers, takes a minute and prevents the most common errors made with titles of this kind: misciting the year, attributing a paper to the wrong conference in the same INSTICC family, or reporting a journal metric for a publication that has never been a journal at all.