International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Post-Quantum Cryptography for Pervasive Systems
(Co-located with PerCom 2027)
Goa, India, March 2027.
International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Post-Quantum Cryptography for Pervasive Systems
(Co-located with PerCom 2027)
Goa, India, March 2027.
Overview:
Pervasive computing environments, spanning IoT, wearables, smart homes, connected vehicles, edge/fog systems, and ambient intelligence platforms continuously collect, process, and transmit sensitive personal and contextual data. This raises two converging challenges. First, privacy preservation: techniques such as differential privacy, federated learning, secure multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, and anonymization must operate under the severe resource, latency, and connectivity constraints typical of pervasive devices. Second, cryptographic agility against quantum threats: the anticipated arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computers threatens the long-term confidentiality of data secured by classical public-key cryptography (RSA, ECC), which underpins most current pervasive communication protocols (TLS, device pairing, secure boot). NIST's PQC standardization (CRYSTALS-Kyber/ML-KEM, Dilithium/ML-DSA, SPHINCS+) provides quantum-resistant primitives, but their integration into constrained pervasive devices, in terms of key size, computational overhead, energy consumption, and protocol redesign, remains largely open. The workshop addresses the intersection of these two challenges: how can pervasive systems be designed to be simultaneously privacy-preserving and quantum-resilient, without sacrificing the usability, scalability, and energy efficiency that pervasive computing demands?
Call for Papers (Topic of Interests):
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:
● Quantum-resilient cryptography
● Applied cryptography and post-quantum cryptographic engineering
● Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs): differential privacy, federated learning, secure computation, homomorphic encryption
● PQC/quantum security for IoT/edge/embedded systems
● PQC/quantum security for wireless and mobile network
● PQC/quantum systems with trustworthy AI
● Hardware security and lightweight cryptography for constrained devices
● Quantum-resilient algorithms and privacy-enhancing technologies
● Related applications and case studies.
Important Dates:
● Workshop paper submission deadline: November 17, 2026
● Paper notification: January 8, 2027
● Camera-ready deadline: February 2, 2027
● Workshop date: Co-located with PerCom 2027, Goa, India (immediately before/after main conference)
Submission Guidelines:
Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (with the option to include 1 additional page for a maximum of 7 pages total) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field.
Papers without a valid full registration or that are not presented in person will be excluded from the proceedings.
Submit via:
PerCom Conference Management System (HotCRP)
(official submission link will be available here soon).
Organizers
Workshop Committees:
Workshop Chairs:
Dr. Soumyadev Maity (Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India)
Dr. Neetesh Saxena (Cardiff University (UK)).
Prof. Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (University of Texas, San Antonio, USA).
Dr. Kumar Prateek (Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India).
Technical Program Committee (TPC):
● Dr. Sridhar Adepu (Swansea University, UK)
● Prof. Vishal Sharma (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
● Prof. Pardeep Kumar (University of Warwick, UK)
● Dr. Amir Javed (Cardiff University, UK)
● Dr. Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed (Newcastle University, UK)
● Dr. Sarad Venugopalan (Imperial College London, UK)
● Prof. Anurag Srivastava (West Virginia University, USA)
● Dr. Rohit Verma (TU Dublin, Ireland)
● Prof. Ali Ismail Awad (UAE University, UAE)
● Prof. Prosanta Gope (University of Sheffield, UK)
● Dr. Nikhil Tripathi (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India)
● Dr. Sangram Ray (NIT Sikkim, India)
● Prof. Venkatesan Subramanian (IIIT Allahabad, India)
● Dr. Jayasree Sengupta (IIIT Allahabad, India)
● Prof. Ashok Kumar Das (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
● Dr. Amit Kumar Chauhan ( QNu Labs, India)
● Dr. Vishal Saraswat (Bosch Global Software Technologies, India)
● Dr. Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Publicity Chair:
● Prof. Ashok Kumar Das, Indian Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Keynotes:
● To be announced