Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2026: 17th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, Hammamet, Tunisia, July 8-10, 2026, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2026, which took place in Hammamet, Tunisia in July 8-10, 2026.

The 19 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions.

They are grouped into the following topics: Lattice-Based and Post-Quantum Cryptography; Quantum and Post-Quantum Attacks/Protocols; Fully Homomorphic Encryption; Symmetric Cryptography and Implementation Security; ECC, Pairings, and RSA; Advanced Signatures; and Cryptographic Models and Applications.