The International Conference on Historical Cryptology (HistoCrypt 2023) invites submissions papers to its annual conference on historical cryptology. The conference will be held in June 20-22, 2023 at the at Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. Please note the date.

HistoCrypt addresses all aspects of historical cryptography and cryptanalysis. The conference’s subjects include, but are not limited to:

• the use of cryptography in military, diplomacy, business, and other areas
• analysis of historical ciphers with the help of modern computerized methods
• unsolved historical cryptograms
• mechanical encryption machines
• the history of modern (computer-based) cryptography
• special linguistic aspects of cryptology
• the influence of cryptography on the course of history
• teaching and promoting cryptology in schools, universities, and the public

We welcome everybody interested in the field of historical cryptology to participate in the event. We invite submissions to HistoCrypt for presentation at the conference, which will be evaluated by the program committee. Participation in the conference is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper.

Submission Guidelines

We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:

• regular papers up to 10 pages (including references) on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including evaluation results, where appropriate
• short papers up to 4 pages (including references) on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, tutorials, or opinion pieces

Presentations of accepted papers are either oral, poster, or demo, which will be decided by the program committee. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the HistoCrypt 2023 proceedings.

Committees

Program Committee

• Arno Wacker (program chair), Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Carola Dahlke (general chair) , Deutsches Museum, Germany
• Bernhard Esslinger (area chair), University of Siegen, Germany
• Benedek Láng (area chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Marek Grajek (area chair), Poland
• Beáta Megyesi (area chair), Uppsala University, Sweden
• Nadine Akkermann, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Eugen Antal, Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics, Slovakia
• Ekaterina Domnina, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia
• John F. Dooley, Knox College, US
• Joachim von zu Gathen, University of Bonn (Emeritus), Germany
• Otokar Grosek, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
• Henner Heck, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Olga Kieselmann, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Jozef Kollár, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Nils Kopal, University of Siegen, Germany
• George Lasry, DECRYPT and CrypTool projects, Israel
• Maximilian Marketsmüller, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Jakub Mírka, State Regional Archives in Pilsen, Czech Republic
• Diego Navarro, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Ingo Niebel, Historian and journalist, Germany
• Stefan Porubsky, The Czech Acadamey of Sciences, Czech Republic
• Christoph Ruhl, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Mathias Schlolaut, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Klaus Schmeh, Private researcher, Germany
• Gerhard F. Straßer, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus), Germany (US)
• Betsy Rohaly Smoot, Independent scholar, US
• Serge Vaudenay, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Michelle Waldispühl, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
• Frode Weierund, Crypto Cellar Research, Norwegian

Local Organizing Committee

• Carola Dahlke (general chair) , Deutsches Museum, Germany
• Matthias Göggerle, Deutsches Museum, Germany
• Maximilian Marketsmüller, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
• Christoph Ruhl, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany

Publication

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the HistoCrypt 2023 proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held in June 20-22, 2023 at the at Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hc23@histocrypt.org.