Modern collaboration systems increasingly operate without a single trusted controller. Users, servers, committees, wallets, ledgers, auditors, and verifiers may participate in a common system, while no one party should hold all keys, observe all data, decide all access, or be trusted to report the outcome.

WDSC 2026 covers threshold and distributed cryptography, privacy-preserving authentication, zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable computation, post-quantum migration, and deployed cryptographic systems.

Submission Guidelines

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.
   

Committees

Program Committee

• Osama Allabwani (Université Clermont Auvergne and Be-Ys)
• Ziyi Guan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University)
• Yu Guo (SECBIT Labs)
• Jiayi Kang (Monash University)
• Chuanwei Lin (University of Luxembourg)
• Kỷ Nguyễn (Sorbonne Université)
• Charles Olivier-Anclin (Université Clermont Auvergne)
• Baocang Wang (Xidian University)
• Stella Wohnig (University of Luxembourg)
• Yongjun Zhao (CUHK alumnus)

Organizing Committee

• Sherman S. M. Chow (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Shang Gao ( Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
• Harry W. H. Wong (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Yingfei Yan (Université Clermont Auvergne)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Yingfei Yan at yingfei.yan@uca.fr