Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC)


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Information-theoretic cryptography aims at achieving security in the presence of computationally unbounded adversaries. Research on information-theoretic cryptography includes in particular:

  • The design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and primitives with unconditional security guarantees.
  • The usage of information-theoretic tools and techniques in achieving other forms of security, including security against computationally-bounded and quantum attackers.

ITC is a venue dedicated to serving two fundamental goals:

  1. To present and disseminate research advances on all aspects of information-theoretic security.
  2. To foster the creation of a community bringing together researchers from several areas, including coding theory, information theory (classical and quantum), theory of computation, privacy, and cryptography.

Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  • Randomness extraction and privacy amplification
  • Secret sharing and Secure multi-party computation
  • Information-theoretic proof systems
  • Differential privacy
  • Quantum cryptography with unconditional security
  • Oblivious data structures
  • Idealized models (e.g., random oracle, generic group models, tamper-proof hardware and ideal obfuscation)
  • Bounded-storage cryptography
  • Private information retrieval and locally-decodable codes
  • Authentication codes and non-malleable codes
  • Adversarial and noisy channels
  • Information-theoretic reductions
  • Information-theoretic foundations of physical-layer security
  • New information-theoretic primitives and their computational analogues
  • Information-theoretic tools in computational reductions including black-box separations and lower bounds
  • Provable symmetric key cryptography via information-theoretic analysis (e.g., modes of operation, hash functions, time-space trade-offs, etc).
Moreover, the conference also encourages the submission of results from other fields of mathematics that are motivated by information-theoretic security.


ITC replaces the International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS), which was dedicated to the same topic and ran 2005-2017. ITC can be seen as a reboot of ICITS with a new name, a new steering committee and a renewed excitement.