The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) is a non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields. The IACR sponsors some of the major conferences and workshops in the field of cryptography, publishes the Journal of Cryptology

Journal of Cryptology

The Journal of Cryptology is a scientific journal in the field of cryptology and cryptography. The journal is published quarterly by the International Association for Cryptologic Research....

, and maintains the Cryptology ePrint Archive

Cryptology ePrint Archive

The Cryptology ePrint Archive is an electronic archive of new results in the field of cryptography, maintained by the International Association for Cryptologic Research. It contains articles covering many of the most recent advances in cryptography....

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The IACR sponsors three annual conferences, Crypto

CRYPTO (conference)

CRYPTO, the International Cryptology Conference, is one of the largest academic conferences in cryptography and cryptanalysis. It is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research , and it is held yearly in August in Santa Barbara, California at the University of California,...

, Eurocrypt

Eurocrypt

Eurocrypt is a conference for cryptography research. The full name of the conference is currently the Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, but this has not always been its name...

 and Asiacrypt

Asiacrypt

Asiacrypt is an important international conference for cryptography research. The full name of the conference is currently International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, though this has varied over time...

; and four annual workshops, Fast Software Encryption (FSE

Fast Software Encryption

Fast Software Encryption, often abbreviated FSE, is a workshop for cryptography research, focused on symmetric-key cryptography with an emphasis on fast, practical techniques, as opposed to theory...

), Public Key Cryptography (PKC

PKC (conference)

PKC or Public-Key Cryptography is the short name of the International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography, a cryptography conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research ....

), Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES

CHES

Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems is a workshop for cryptography research, focusing on the implementation of cryptographic algorithm. The two general areas treated are the efficient and the secure implementation of algorithms...

) and the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC

Theory of Cryptography Conference

The Theory of Cryptography Conference, often abbreviated TCC, is an annual conference for theoretical cryptography research. It was first held in 2004 at MIT, and was also held at MIT in 2005, both times in February. TCC became an IACR-sponsored workshop in 2006....

). A few other conferences and workshops are affiliated to the IACR.

The IACR was organised at the initiative of David Chaum

David Chaum

David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols, including blind signature schemes, commitment schemes, and digital cash. In 1982, Chaum founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research , which currently organizes academic conferences in cryptography research...

 at CRYPTO '82. CRYPTO '83 was the first conference officially sponsored by the IACR. In 2000, IACR had approximately 1600 members and its current president is Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group, president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, and project manager of ECRYPT....

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The IACR has established the IACR Fellows Program, an honor to bestow upon its exceptional members. There are currently 27 IACR Fellows: Tom Berson

Tom Berson

Thomas Alan Berson is a cryptographer and computer security researcher. His notable work includes several cryptanalytic attacks, and research in the practical use of cryptographic protocols, particularly in computer networks....

, David Chaum

David Chaum

David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols, including blind signature schemes, commitment schemes, and digital cash. In 1982, Chaum founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research , which currently organizes academic conferences in cryptography research...

, Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM, particularly the design of the S-boxes, strengthening them against differential cryptanalysis...

, Whitfield Diffie

Whitfield Diffie

Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976...

, Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm , a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer...

, Kevin McCurley

Kevin McCurley

Kevin Snow McCurley is a mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer, currently a research scientist at Google.He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1981 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His early research was in number theory, investigating such topics as primes in...

, Gustavus Simmons

Gustavus Simmons

Gustavus J. Simmons is a retired cryptographer and former manager of the applied mathematics Department and Senior Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories...

, Jacques Stern

Jacques Stern

Jacques Stern is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory. He received the 2006 CNRS Gold Medal...

, Gilles Brassard

Gilles Brassard

Gilles Brassard was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1955. He received a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1975, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1979, working in the field of cryptography with John Hopcroft as his advisor...

, Martin Hellman

Martin Hellman

Martin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist, and is best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle...

, Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

Shafrira Goldwasser is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.-Biography:...

, Hideki Imai

Hideki Imai

is an information theorist and cryptographer, currently the director of Research Center for Information Security , National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a full professor at Chuo University...

, Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1983. His research centers on the theory of cryptography and information...

, Ueli Maurer, Ralph Merkle

Ralph Merkle

Ralph C. Merkle is a researcher in public key cryptography, and more recently a researcher and speaker on molecular nanotechnology and cryonics...

, Moni Naor

Moni Naor

Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Naor received his Ph.D. in 1989 at the University of California, Berkeley. His adviser was Manuel Blum....

, George Blakley

George Blakley

George Robert Blakley Jr. is an American cryptographer and a professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University, best known for inventing a secret sharing scheme in 1979.-Biography:...

, Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich is a professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His research interests lie within the theory of computation...

, Arjen Lenstra

Arjen Lenstra

Arjen Klaas Lenstra is a Dutch mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam.He is currently a professor at the EPFL , in the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms, and...

, James Massey

James Massey

James Lee Massey is an information theorist andcryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work...

, Michael O. Rabin

Michael O. Rabin

Michael Oser Rabin , is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.- Biography :Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany, , the son of a rabbi. In 1935, he emigrated with his family to Mandate Palestine...

, Andrew Clark, Ivan Damgård

Ivan Damgård

Ivan Bjerre Damgård is a Danish cryptographer and currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science , Aarhus University, Denmark....

, Yvo G. Desmedt

Yvo G. Desmedt

Yvo G. Desmedt is the Chair of Information Communication Technology at University College London. He was a pioneer of threshold cryptography and is an International Association for Cryptologic Research Fellow...

, Jean-Jacques Quisquater

Jean-Jacques Quisquater

Jean-Jacques Quisquater is a cryptographer and a professor at Université catholique de Louvain.-External links:*...

 and Andrew Yao

Andrew Yao

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.Yao was born in Shanghai, China...

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