Where the conference came from
Cryptographic research in Latin America grew from longer traditions in computing, computer engineering, and theoretical computer science. Over time, research groups in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay developed active programs in cryptography and information security while building close collaborations with universities and laboratories abroad.
The community has never been defined only by geography. Many Latin American cryptographers trained abroad and later joined universities, research centers, and industrial laboratories around the world. LATINCRYPT reflects that reality: strongly rooted in the region, but inherently international.
The first LATINCRYPT
The inaugural edition took place in Puebla, Mexico, on August 8–11, 2010. The program committee received 62 submissions and accepted 19 papers. By 2025, LATINCRYPT had reached its ninth edition and had been hosted in six Latin American countries.
Across those nine editions, the conference received 467 submissions and accepted 171 contributed papers, for an overall acceptance rate of approximately 36.6%.
Scientific profile
Invited lectures and contributed papers have ranged across cryptographic foundations, symmetric cryptanalysis, elliptic-curve cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, isogenies, privacy, post-quantum cryptography, efficient implementation, and related areas.
The conference has also produced work with impact beyond LATINCRYPT, including research on cryptographic libraries and pairings, efficient elliptic-curve implementations, post-quantum key exchange, and side-channel protections.
Software and pairing performance
LATINCRYPT papers include work on the security impact of cryptographic libraries and new software speed records for cryptographic pairings.
Efficient implementations
Research presented at the conference has included faster scalar multiplication on Koblitz curves and high-speed Curve25519 implementations.
Implementation security
The archive also includes post-quantum key-exchange implementations and stronger side-channel protections for CSIDH.
Selected LATINCRYPT papers
The conference record highlights these papers as examples of work whose influence extended beyond LATINCRYPT, spanning cryptographic software, pairings, elliptic-curve implementations, post-quantum key exchange, and side-channel protection.
New software speed records for cryptographic pairings
Michael Naehrig · Ruben Niederhagen · Peter Schwabe
DOI ↗The security impact of a new cryptographic library
Daniel J. Bernstein · Tanja Lange · Peter Schwabe
DOI ↗Faster implementation of scalar multiplication on Koblitz curves
Diego F. Aranha · Armando Faz-Hernández · Julio López · Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
DOI ↗Curve25519 for the Cortex-M4 and beyond
Hayato Fujii · Diego F. Aranha
DOI ↗Implementing the NewHope-Simple key exchange on low-cost FPGAs
Tobias Oder · Tim Güneysu
DOI ↗Stronger and faster side-channel protections for CSIDH
Daniel Cervantes-Vázquez · Mathilde Chenu · Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez · Luca De Feo · Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez · Benjamin Smith
DOI ↗International links, regional ownership
The International Association for Cryptologic Research has cooperated in the organization of every LATINCRYPT edition, and Springer has published the proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series under the title Progress in Cryptology — LATINCRYPT.
A recurring tradition has been to pair program chairs based in Latin America with colleagues from Europe, North America, or industrial research laboratories. That model has helped the conference remain rooted in the region while maintaining strong links with the international cryptographic community.
Conference + schools
LATINCRYPT's identity extends beyond the technical program. ASCrypto gives advanced students access to research-level lectures, while introductory schools such as INCACrypto and CatíoCrypto have opened modern cryptography to broader local student audiences. Together, these activities connect research excellence with long-term community building.