Keynote Speakers

Awaiting evaluation

Call For Papers

Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related to information security technologies and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Cryptology
• Applied cryptography
• Mobile security
• Cloud security
• Access control
• Privacy enhanced technology
• Viruses and malware
• Software security
• Database security
• AI security
• Web security
• Operating system security
• Intrusion detection
• Big data security and privacy
• Biometric Security
• Implementation
• Network security
• Key management
• Security and privacy in ubiquitous computing
• Formal methods for security
• Digital forensics
• Security for critical infrastructures
• Embedded systems security
• Lightweight security
• Smart grid security
• Cyber security for urban transportation
• Cyber-physical security
• Cryptocurrency

Publication Information

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Previous ISPEC proceedings are available on SpringerLink, where you can find detailed metrics including citations, downloads, and reader statistics at both paper and book levels.

Paper Preparation Guidelines

Authors must prepare their papers using either the LaTeX or Word templates provided by Springer. Please consult Springer's Instructions for Authors of Proceedings for detailed formatting guidelines.

Code of Conduct

All authors are required to adhere to Springer Nature's Code of Conduct for book authors.

Important Dates

Important Dates
First Round	Paper Submission Due	June 26, 2026    July 1, 2026
	Author Notification	July 24, 2026    July 27, 2026
Second Round	Paper Submission Due	August 7, 2026    August 14, 2026
	Author Notification	August 31, 2026    September 6, 2026
	Camera-ready Version	September 15, 2026
	Author Registration Due	October 9, 2026
	Conference Date	November 6-8, 2026

ISPEC 2026 Submission Link

Author Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings or any journal. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in length (single column) excluding appendices and bibliography and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Submitted papers must follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) template from the time they are submitted. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Organising Committee

Honorary Chairs

Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Guangyue Lu, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dong Zheng, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Man Ho Allen Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Yannan Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Guomin Yang, Singapore Management University, Singapore

General Chairs

Jiangtao Cui, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Baodong Qin, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Yong Yu, ‌Shaanxi Normal University, China

Steering Committee

Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Feng Bao, Huawei International, Singapore

Organizing Chairs

Chengzhe Lai, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Bin Luo, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

Publication Chair

Yunling Wang, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Liang Xue, York University, Canada
Min Xie, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China

Publicity Chairs

Hui Cui, Monash University, Australia
Jongkil Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Jianbing Ni, Queen's University, Canada
Haiyang Xue, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Yanqi Zhao, Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Special Issues

Awaiting evaluation

Accepted Papers

2026 Full paper

Private Set Intersection Cardinality Protocol in Unbalanced Settings
Zixin Cheng, Baodong Qin, Wen Gao, Jiayi Wang and Fangyan Zhu

ImpTensorPIR: Single-Server PIR with Lower Communication Cost
Yingchu Lv, Yanbin Pan and Huaxiong Wang

Efficient and Expressive Bilateral Access Control for Secure Data Sharing
Axin Wu, Yifei Li, Jianhao Zhu, Yuer Yang and Yinghui Zhang

Multi-Receiver Public-Key Matchmaking Encryption for Efficient One-to-Many Data Sharing
Yanmei Cao, Meixia Miao, Mengyao Jing and Jianghong Wei

An Updatable Unbalanced Private Set Intersection Cardinality Protocol Based on Secret-Shared Reverse Private Membership Testing
Jiayi Wang, Baodong Qin, Wen Gao and Zixin Cheng

HySSE-RAG: Unified Hybrid Searchable Encryption for Privacy-Preserving RAG
Xi Zhang, Xuyang Pan, Changguang Wang, Fangwei Wang, Qingru Li, Yong Yu and Jing Qin

Proactive One-Round Privacy-Preserving Cohort Discovery and Indexed Transaction Analytics
Hua Shen, Panpan Guo, Bing Li, Aoxin He and Jiacheng Gu

TNT-ACT: Threshold Anonymous Credit Tokens with Non-transferability
Boyang Liu, Yanqi Zhao, Xuan Zhao, Xiaoyi Yang and Min Xie

DuplexGQA: Stable Recoverability and Capacity-Aware Resource Frontiers for Complex-Packed Encrypted Attention
Yijin Wang

Registration-based Signature: Definitions and Constructions
Beilin Wan, Zhiyuan An, Ling Liu, Wai-Kong Lee and Jing Pan

THEMIS: Leakage-Bounded Biometric Decision with CKKS Homomorphic Encryption
Qiyue Zhao, Liping Zhuang, Yuying Lin and Zheng Gong

FPGA-based parallel architecture for solving ECC2-131
Tsun-Ming Chan, Fangguo Zhang and Yusong Du

Improved SAT-based Syndrome Decoding in CNF Encoding
Yang Sun, Zhinan Wang, Gaohao Cui and Jincheng Zhuang

Rational-Function Transformation-Based S-Boxes over F2^8 with Full-Cycle Structure and Desirable Diffusion Indicators
Rida Samee, Abdul Ghafoor, Maemoona Kayani, Ayesha Khalid and Muhammad Tayyab Ali

Cross-Chain Message Provenance Under Attack: The KelpDAO Forgery and a Census of LayerZero V2 Trust Configurations
Ylvie Khoo, Leonardo Aniello and Vladimiro Sassone

New TMDTO Attacks on ACORNv3 and Grain-128
Ziyu Guan, Lin Ding and Jie Guan

A Generalized Wiener-type Attack Against a Family RSA-like Cryptosystems
George Teseleanu

A New Hybrid Attack Integrating Dual Lattice Reduction and Meet-LWE for Ternary LWE Keys
Shengye Song, Zhongxiao Wang and Hong Xu

LLM-Trace: Single-Path Semantic Attribution on Application-Layer Provenance Graphs for Zero-Trust Tier-2/3 Compliance Auditing
Anda Wu and Yonggang Gong

I-GCG-Enhanced Indirect Prompt Injection Against LLM Web Agents via HTML Accessibility Tree
Yiwei Tong, Mengnan Wang, Zihao Chen, Mengfan Wu and Chunjie Cao

RHGB: A Cross-Domain Evaluation for Deep Learning, Federated Privacy-Preserving Deployment and the Integration of Dark Web Signals in Anti-Money Laundering Detection
Lohith R D and Shaila S G

DualGuard-AutoDP: Dual-Channel Privacy Preservation for non-IID Federated Learning in Autonomous Driving VLMs
Haowei Liu, Hao Fang, Xiaotong Zhou, Youyang Qu and Jianghua Liu

SVBAggFed: Secure and Verifiable Buffered Asynchronous Aggregation for Federated Learning
Jianxiang Zhao, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni and Mianxiong Dong

CIFL: Byzantine Attacks and Robustness in Federated Learning with Class-Isolated Clients
Hua Shen, Precious Nkunika, Weidong Wen and Haocheng Jiang

ASTRA: Auction-based Shapley Trust-aware Resource Allocation for Robust Client Selection in Federated Learning
Le Ngoc Son Pham and Thi Ai Thao Nguyen

FedDP-FCM: Differentially Private Federated Fuzzy C-Means Clustering
Zhuo Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yufei Wang, Haonan Tian and Jianghong Wei

ITC-IDS: Identifier-Conditioned Temporal Context Learning with Lightweight TCN for Fine-Grained CAN Intrusion Detection
Jiayu Li, Qing Zhou and Xiangxue Li

Explaining Access Control Through Causal Reasoning
Gelareh Hasel Mehri, Clemens Dubslaff, Tim A. C. Willemse and Nicola Zannone

GONS: Self-Calibrated Open-Set Rejection for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Intrusion Detection
Xuan Ha Nguyen, Kim-Hung Le and Nhien-An Le-Khac

A Dynamic Bayesian Network Model for Supply Chain Ransomware Prevention under Interdependent Structures
Zhuo Chen, Issa Traoré and Mohammad Mamun

Do Recovered Names Help? Evaluating Binary Function-Name Recovery for Vulnerability Triage
Cristian Garces, Keith Mitchell, Chenke Luo, Haotian Zhang and Jiang Ming

VDB: A Unified Framework for Vulnerability Detection Datasets with Model Context Protocol Integration
Tomasz Skowron and Adam Mastalerz

ProvLogic: Provenance-Grounded Reasoning for Traceable Detection of Smart Contract Logic Vulnerabilities
Jiancheng Liu, Qinnan Zhang, Faguo Wu, Jiachen Qu, Yuntao Zhang, Xiao Zhang and Zhiming Zheng

Beyond Traditional Sandboxes: Malware Analysis in Realistic Environments
Lennard Kießling, Tanja Klöffel and Sebastian Biedermann

SwinAI: Swin Attention Integration for Malware Detection and Classification of Windows PE Binaries Using Multi-Modal Feature Fusion
P Tara Kumari, Shiva Darshan S.L and Nidhi Sonkar

Conference Schedule

Awaiting evaluation

Best Paper

Awaiting evaluation

Registration Information

• At least one author of each accepted paper must complete an Author Registration by 23:59, October 16, 2026 (GMT+8), in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings.
• Each registration includes coffee breaks, lunches, a banquet, a dinner, and access to all conference sessions.
• Please note that registrations cannot be cancelled once completed, and registration fees are non-refundable.
• For any questions about registration, please email sinleced@msn.cn with the subject line "ISPEC Registration".

Registration Types & Fees

Registration Type	Registration Fee
Author Registration	4500 CNY / 670 USD
Attendee Registration (by 23:59 GMT+8, 16 October 2026)	4000 CNY / 600 USD
Attendee Registration (from 00:00 GMT+8, 17 October 2026)	4500 CNY / 670 USD

How to Register

• Please download the registration form that applies to you and fill in all required details for each attendee:
  • International attendees: Registration Form (English)
  • Attendees from Mainland China: Registration Form (Chinese)
• Email the completed form to sinleced@msn.cn with the subject line "ISPEC 2026 Registration#PAPER-ID#NAME" . PAPER-ID is your paper submission number, if applicable, and NAME is the author's name. In the form, please also indicate which author will present the paper at the conference.

Payment Method

• Payment via PayPal (in USD): Coming soon
• For International Payers (Bank Transfer in USD):
  • Beneficiary Name: XIAN UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  • Account No.: 61014280000220100032
  • Bank Name: China Construction Bank Xi'an Changan Road Subbranch
  • Bank Address: No. 10, Changan North Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
  • SWIFT Code: PCBCCNBJSXX
  • Remittance Note: ISPEC#PAPER-ID (if applicable)#NAME
• For Payers in Mainland China (Bank Transfer in CNY):
  • 开户银行：中国建设银行西安汇轩路支行
  • 账号：61001723700050000897
  • 户名：西安邮电大学
  • 汇款备注：ISPEC#论文编号（如适用）#姓名

Important: if you need a room during the conference, please contact the local organization team via Email: 294620541@qq.com or Phone/WeChat: 18710923384. We have secured a number of rooms for registered attendees.

• Room Rates: 350 RMB per night (for both Standard Rooms and King Rooms, breakfast included).
• Booking Deadline: Please make your reservation before October 25th.
• Note: Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Once our reserved rooms are fully booked, attendees will need to arrange their own accommodations at other hotels.

Hotel Name:
Hao Tang International Hotel（西安皓唐国际酒店）

Address:
No. 855 West Chang'an Street, Chang'an District, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China（陕西省西安市长安区西长安街855号）

Hotel Description:
Hao Tang International Hotel is a high-end business and lifestyle hotel built to international high-star standards, located at the intersection of West Chang'an Street and Ziwu Avenue in the core area of Chang'an New City, Xi'an. The hotel is adjacent to the Chang'an District Government Administrative Center and the University City, cleverly integrating modern accommodation experiences with the profound historical and cultural heritage of the ancient capital. The hotel integrates accommodation, dining, wellness, and conference facilities, making it an ideal venue for business meetings, large-scale banquets, and leisure travel.
The hotel offers spacious and elegantly designed guest rooms equipped with modern amenities, ensuring guests enjoy both comfort and convenience. Its state-of-the-art pillarless convention halls are suitable for large-scale conferences and banquets, supported by professional event services.

How to Reach:

• From Xi'an Xianyang International Airport: you can take a taxi (about 130 CNY, 60-70 min), or take Metro Line 14 at Airport West Station (机场西站), transfer to Line 2 at Xi'an North Railway Station (西安北站), then transfer to Line 15 and get off at Youdian University Station (邮电大学站); from there, it's about a 7-minute walk to the hotel (around 9 CNY, 90–100 min total).
• From Xi'an North Railway Station: you can take a taxi (about 90 CNY, 50 min), or take Metro Line 2 at Xi'an North Railway Station (西安北站), transfer to Line 15, and get off at Youdian University Station (邮电大学站); from there, it's about a 7-minute walk to the hotel (around 7 CNY, 60 min total).
• From Xi'an Railway Station: you can take a taxi (about 45 CNY, 40 min), or take Metro Line 4 at Xi'an Station (西安站), transfer to Line 2 at Administrative Center Station (行政中心站), then transfer to Line 15 and get off at Youdian University Station (邮电大学站); from there, it's about a 7-minute walk to the hotel (around 5 CNY, 50 min total).

Hotel Map:

Hotel Pictures:

Overseas participants should check if they need to apply for a Chinese visa.

According to the latest policy from China's National Immigration Administration, the visa-free transit stay has been extended from 144 hours to 240 hours (10 days).

240-Hour Visa-Free Transit (55 Countries)

The list below reflects the current policy with 55 eligible countries (as of late 2025), grouped by region.

Europe (40)

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Monaco, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Belarus, Norway

Americas (6)

United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile

Oceania (2)

Australia, New Zealand

Asia (7)

South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia

To the best of our knowledge, to enjoy the 240-hour visa-free transit policy: 1)The applicant must hold a valid international travel document with a remaining validity of no less than 3 months and meet the entry requirements of the third country (or region) they are transiting to. 2)The applicant must hold a connecting ticket or relevant proof with a confirmed date and seat to a third country (or region) within 240 hours, fill out the Temporary Entry Card for Foreigners, and accept inspection and inquiry by the entry-exit border inspection authorities.

Foreign nationals who meet the above conditions may submit an application to the border inspection authorities at 60 ports in China, including Beijing and Shanghai. The border inspection authorities will process the temporary entry procedures for them. The visa-free stay period is calculated from 00:00 of the day following entry. Those who qualify under mutual visa exemption agreements signed with China or China's unilateral visa-free policy shall follow the provisions of those respective policies.

Important: the above information only indicates that you may not need a Visa to visit Xi’an, but please double check the Visa policy from an official source before making your travel arrangement!

If you need an invitation letter to support your visa application, please contact the Publicity Chairs: Dr. Yanqi Zhao(Email:zhaoyanqi2019@163.com)