A workshop co-located with ACNS 2026
Will be held at the Wang Center, Stony Brook, NY during June 23-26, 2026 (in parallel with the main conference)
The workshop on NextG Networks Cryptography and Security (NextG-Sec) invites high-quality papers that address the urgent need for securing not only these networks but also the underlying cryptographic protocols and schemes used underneath. The aim for this workshop is to unite researchers, industry professionals, and government representatives to tackle these emerging security and privacy issues in next-generation networks, including 5G, 6G, and beyond.
Next-Generation wireless (NextG) network systems will support dynamically varying demands for data processing, dissemination, and storage, often in a distributed user-access-edge-core-cloud context. Given the need for ultra-reliable, low-latency performance in such high-demand applications, NextG networks face unique emerging threats, requiring innovative defense architectures, techniques, and protocols.
One of the highlights of the workshop is securing the networks from the rising threat of quantum computing and developing Post-Quantum (PQ)-secure schemes, protocols, and solutions for NextG networks.
The workshop is a full-day event featuring a mix of:
Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNCS series.