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31st Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy
6 - 9 July 2026, Perth, Australia

ACISP 2026

Conference Program (Tentative)

Select a day to view its schedule. Session topics link to the list of talks and authors below.

Monday 6 July schedule
Time Session
6.00pm - 8.00pm
Welcome Reception Wonil Hotel
Tuesday 7 July schedule
Time Session
8.30am - 9.00am
Opening Ceremony
9.00am - 10.00am
Keynote 1: Cryptographic Thinking for AI Vinod Vaikuntanathan
10.00am - 10.20am
Morning tea
10.20am - 11.40am
Parallel Session 1
11.40am - 12.40pm
Lunch
12.40pm - 2.00pm
Parallel Session 2
2.00pm - 3.20pm
Parallel Session 3
3.20pm - 3.40pm
Afternoon tea
3.40pm - 5.20pm
Parallel Session 4
Wednesday 8 July schedule
Time Session
9.00am - 10.00am
JS Lecture: Public-Key Cryptography Over the Past Five Years: Structure, Survey, and Story Fuchun Guo
10.00am - 10.20am
Morning tea
10.20am - 11.40am
Parallel Session 5
11.40am - 12.40pm
Lunch
12.40pm - 1.40pm
Keynote 2: Explainable Leakage Assessments Elisabeth Oswald
1.40pm - 3.00pm
Parallel Session 6
3.00pm - 3.20pm
Afternoon tea
3.20pm - 5.00pm
Parallel Session 7
5.20pm, 5.40pm
Bus to banquet Buses depart from the conference venue at 5.20pm and 5.40pm. Seating is limited; guests are encouraged to arrive early for their preferred departure.
6.00pm - 10.00pm
Banquet Frasers, Kings Park Join us for the conference banquet at Frasers, set in beautiful Kings Park with views over Perth.
Thursday 9 July schedule
Time Session
9.00am - 10.00am
Keynote 3: Practical Privacy-Enhancing Systems for IoT & 5G Robert H. Deng
10.00am - 10.20am
Morning tea
10.20am - 11.40am
Parallel Session 8
11.40am - 12.40pm
Lunch
12.40pm - 1.40pm
Industry Invited Talk: Offensive Security Considered Offensive Matt Jones
1.40pm - 3.00pm
Parallel Session 9
3.00pm - 3.10pm
Afternoon tea
3.10pm - 3.50pm
Parallel Session 10
3.50pm - 4.50pm
Parallel Session 11
4.50pm - 5.10pm
Closing

Session Talk Details

Research Track Sessions

Session 1: Backdoors
  1. Enhancing Backdoor Persistence under Uncontrolled Federated Clients: A Bidirectional Adversarial and Redundant Embedding Framework Lin Wei, Zitao Lyu, Lei Shi, Chengming Liu, and Huijuan Lian
  2. Backdoor Risks in Personalized Federated Learning under Practical Constraints Yiming He, Qing Ye, Xinhong Hei and Yichuan Wang
  3. TIDE: Making Task-Agnostic Backdoors Harder to Erase in Pre-trained Language Models Yan Meng, Zhigang Lu, Bing Li, Anan Du, and Shuchao Pang
  4. SpecGate: Spectral Decomposition and LOF-Gated Aggregation for Defending Against Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning Wenxiu Wu, Haiyong Bao, Menghong Guan, Jiaan Jiang, Hong-Ning Dai and Cheng Huang
Session 1: Identity-Based and Public-Key Cryptography
  1. Efficient Identity-Based Matchmaking Encryption with Enhanced Privacy and Chosen-Ciphertext Security Qinyi Li, Hao Qin, and Xavier Boyen
  2. Improved Tightly Secure (ID-based) Signatures in the AGM Yanzibo Zhou, Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo, and Nan Li
  3. Forward-Secure Tag-Inverse Puncturable Identity-Based Encryption Dongmei Yang, Yang Ba, Xuexian Hu and Jianghong Wei
  4. Fast Updatable Message Authentication Codes and Signatures with Public Tokens Marc Fischlin and Saçıak Gözde
Session 2: AI & Security
  1. Okara: Detection and Attribution of TLS Man-in-the-Middle Vulnerabilities in Android Apps with Foundation Models Haoyun Yang, Ronghong Huang, Yong Fang, Beizeng Zhang, Junpu Guo, Zhanyu Wu, and Xianghang Mi
  2. Autonomous Adversary: Red-Teaming in the age of LLM Mohammad Mamun, Mohamed Hatem, Sherif Saad and Scott Buffett
  3. Harnessing Large Language Models for Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection and Response: A Comprehensive Survey Xiaoyu Li, Nan Sun and Jiaojiao Jiang
  4. PhishCascade: Confidence-Gated Multi-Agent Phishing Detection Hongju Li
Session 2: Cryptanalytic Methods and Attacks
  1. Evaluating SAT Accelerations for Cryptanalytic Trail Search - Low-Parallelism Portfolio Parallelism and a Comparison of Matsui-Based Methods Tenglong Yuan, Bingqing Li and Ling Sun
  2. Meet-LWE with Hints: Solving Ternary LWE with Information Leakage Jinzheng Cao, Rongmao Chen, Haodong Jiang, and Qingfeng Cheng
  3. Cryptanalytic Extraction of Convolutional Neural Networks Xiaohan Sun, Hao Lei, Longxiang Wei, Xiaokang Qi, Kai Hu, Meiqin Wang, and Wei Wang
  4. Laurent Polynomial-Based Linear Transformations for Improved Functional Bootstrapping San Ling, Benjamin Hong Meng Tan, Huaxiong Wang and Allen Siwei Yang
Session 3: Intrusion Detection & Anomaly Analysis
  1. Adversarial-Example Agnostic Detection in Network Intrusion Detection Systems Jing Li, Wei Zong, Yang-Wai Chow and Willy Susilo
  2. SoK: Telemetry-Aware Runtime Assurance for Always-On On-Device Intrusion Detection Nuonan Ouyang, Adrian Shatte, Zhigang Lu, Chao Chen and Wei Xiang
  3. ST-Attention-XAI: Intrinsic Spatio-Temporal Explainability for IoT Intrusion Detection via Attention Analysis Nimesha Dilini, Nan Sun, Yuantian Miao and Nour Moustafa
  4. Verifiable Anomaly and Similarity Detection Using Matrix Profile in Private Time-series Xavier Bultel, Charlène Jojon, Benjamin Nguyen and Haoying Zhang
Session 3: Zero Knowledge, Commitments, and MPC
  1. Efficient Zero Knowledge Proofs for Committed Symmetric Boolean Functions From VOLE-in-the-Head Ying Ouyang, Zuming Liu, Deng Tang, and Yanhong Xu
  2. Transparent Fully Batchable Polynomial Commitment with Application to Scalable VSS Xiangyu Kong, Min Zhang, and Yu Chen
  3. Compact All-but-τ Vector Commitments for MPC-in-the-Head Signatures Lingqing Zhao and Liping Wang
  4. Efficient Additive Randomized Encodings for String Oblivious Transfer: A Core Primitive for General Functions Masaya Yoshimura, Kyoichi Asano, Yugo Kasashima, Mitsugu Iwamoto and Yohei Watanabe
Session 4: Smart Contracts and Blockchain Security
  1. Prompt to Pwn: Automated Exploit Generation for Smart Contracts Zeke Xiao, Qin Wang, Yuekang Li, and Shiping Chen
  2. ServiceChain: A Verifiable Cloud Service Framework for Resource-Constrained Blockchain Nodes Lin Zhang, Shaowen Yao, Jiayuan Lv, Huajian Yu, and Hongxing Xu
  3. The Dark Side of Upgrades: Uncovering Insecurity in Smart Contract Upgrades Dingding Wang, Jianting He, Siwei Wu, Yajin Zhou, Lei Wu, and Cong Wang
  4. Empirical Analysis of Misdirected Payment Risks from Name Collisions in Blockchain Naming Services Soichiro Kobayashi, Daiki Ito, Takuya Watanabe, Yuta Takata, Hiroshi Kumagai and Masaki Kamizono
  5. LockMeld: A Privacy-Preserving Cross-Chain Protocol for Confidential, Account-Based Blockchains Hanqing Huang, Chenke Wang, Yu Long, Xian Xu and Dawu Gu
Session 5: Authentication & User Security
  1. CogSpy: Cognition-Driven PIN Inference against Layout-Randomized Soft Keyboards Chiyu Zhou, Zijian Wan, and Wei Wang
  2. Missing the Link? Enhancing the Security of Digital Car Keys With Secure Session Linking and Hardware Trust Christian Plappert and Daniel Trick
  3. Data Exfiltration over Browsers Naseer Ahmad Noor, Masahiro Ishii and Keisuke Tanaka
  4. A Taxonomy-Driven Case Study of Australian Web Resources Against Technology-Facilitated Abuse Dipankar Srirag, Xiaolin Cen, Rahat Masood and Aditya Joshi
Session 6: Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Primitives
  1. Analyzing Forgery Security of LeMac: Tight Bounds and Impact of Padding Taichi Nagoya, Takuro Shiraya, Kazuma Taka, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Kosei Sakamoto, Ryoma Ito, and Takanori Isobe
  2. Automated Tool for Finding Practical Collisions on SPN-based Hash Functions Keita Toyama, Kosei Sakamoto, Ryoma Ito, Kazuma Taka, Kodai Taiyama, and Takanori Isobe
  3. Related-key Secure Blockwise Universal Permutations and Non-linear SPNs Yuxiang Wang and Chun Guo
  4. SoK: The Cryptanalysis of SHA-3 Standard Hailun Yan, Anze Sun, Jiahao Wang and Zheng Li
Session 6: Privacy
  1. Information-Theoretic Privacy for Long-Term Share Storage on Noisy Media Elmo Huang, Huaxiong Wang, and Kwok Yan Lam
  2. Contact Tracing with Location Privacy Protection Xun Yi, Xiaoning Liu, Kwok-Yan Lam and Elisa Bertino
  3. OblivSage: Oblivious Graph Sampling for Privacy-Preserving GNN Zhibo Xu, Yiming Qin, Shangqi Lai, Xiaoning Liu, Alsharif Abuadbba, Tsz Hon Yuen, Joseph Liu and Xingliang Yuan
  4. Seeing Data Rights: Understanding of Pictograms and Color Cues for Privacy and Complex Data Practices Kira Mennerich, Mia Catharina Chrambach, Maya Laura Gohres, Omed Abed, Patrick-Benjamin Bök and Matteo Große-Kampmann
Session 7: Threshold, Traceable, and Secure Protocols
  1. Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Anonymous Credentials with Public Traceability and Revocation Meng Sun, Mingmei Zheng, Junzuo Lai, Chi Wu, and Xiaohan Mo
  2. Towards Public Tracing: Collaborative Traceable Secret Sharing Pousali Dey, Rittwik Hajra, Subha Kar, and Soumit Pal
  3. Round-Optimal Threshold Blind Signature from Lattices Haoqi Zhang, Qinyi Li, Leo Yu Zhang and Hui Tian
  4. Password Protected Universal Thresholdizer Sabyasachi Dutta, Partha Sarathi Roy, Reihaneh Safavi-Naini and Willy Susilo
  5. Threshold FHE with Short Decryption Shares without a Semi-trusted Server Hiroki Okada and Tsuyoshi Takagi
Session 8: Lattice-Based Cryptography and Post-Quantum Security
  1. Attribute-Based Encryption for Circuits and Inner-Product Predicate Encryption from Middle-Product LWE Takumi Nishimura and Atsushi Takayasu
  2. Batch-Puncturing Circuit CP-ABE (and More) from Lattices Yongkang Lang, Fangguo Zhang, Jianghong Wei, Xinyi Huang and Xiaofeng Chen
  3. Lattice-based Ring Verifiable Random Functions Jie Xu, Muhammed F. Esgin and Ron Steinfeld
  4. HetAKE: Heterogeneous Authenticated Key Exchange for Post-Quantum Migration Xianhui Lu, Yao Cheng, Jingnan He, Haiyang Xue and Yamin Liu
Session 8: Unlearning & Model Reliability
  1. Retention-Consistent Concept Unlearning for Diffusion Models Laiqiao Qin, Tianqing Zhu, Linlin Wang, and Wanlei Zhou
  2. Scrutinising Parametric Distance Verification in Unlearning: A Coupling Perspective Jingming Dai, Lulu Xue, Jintian Ji, Yanjun Zhang, Shengshan Hu and Leo Yu Zhang
  3. Pixel-Depth Prototypical Knowledge Consolidation Network for Deepfake Detection Ahmed Asiri, Weiqi Wang, Zhiyi Tian, Xiaoyu Ding, Luoyu Chen and Shui Yu
  4. MelShield: Robust Mel-Domain Audio Watermarking for Provenance Attribution of AI Generated Synthesized Speech Yutong Jin, Qi Li, Lingshuang Liu and Jianbing Ni
Session 9: Network Traffic Analysis & Detection
  1. Detection and Interpretation of Malicious Network Traffic via a novel 8-Channel Image Representation Zhiqiang Wang, Junlai Luo, Sen Teng, and Sicheng Yuan
  2. RC-MDNet: Risk-Controlled Malicious Domain Detection for Open-World Network Security Yuning Jing
  3. Secure Sealed-bidding Networks via Conditional Time-aware Access Authorization Qi Liu, Peng Jiang, Yimin Liu, Zhen Zhao, and Liehuang Zhu
  4. ST-Mamba: Spatio-temporal Feature-Based Encrypted Traffic Analysis Using Mamba Network Jiangwen Zhu, Mingrui Fan, Ruohan Cao, Jinxin Zuo, and Yueming Lu
Session 9: Secure Systems and Trusted Execution
  1. Shielding MCP Tool: A Secure Execution Framework using TEE and Automated Trimming Ruidong Han, Chengyan Ma, Ye Liu, Yuqing Niu, and David Lo
  2. Lost in the Pages: WebAssembly Code Recovery through SEV-SNP's Exposed Address Space Markus Berthilsson and Christian Gehrmann
  3. Understanding the Security of Cloud Storage Services: A Case Study and UC-Secure Design Pengfei Wu, Yuxian Li, Lisha Yao, Xiaoguo Li, Guomin Yang, Tao Xiang and Robert H. Deng
  4. LRC-DPoR: Efficient Data Integrity Auditing with Local Repair and Dynamic Updates Yumei Li, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo and Yudi Zhang
Session 10: Security Models and Access Control
  1. Beyond the U-Method: Automating the Search for UID-Based Contradictions with Constraint Programming Jinpeng Liu and Ling Sun
  2. Ensuring Incentive Compatibility in an Enhanced All-Pay Auction Model for User Recruitment Hai Liu, Nana Zhou, Maoze Tian, Ying Tang and Jianfeng Ma
  3. Fine-Grained Weighted Access Control with Keyword Search and Malicious User Tracing for Cloud-Based mHealth Systems Jiannan Wei, Zhipeng Zhai, Mingxin Lu and Xuansong Li
  4. RoS-ETA: Defeating Availability Poisoning via the Physical Rate Paradox Chaoqiang Fu, Daofeng Li, Guoxiong Huang and Wanjing Lu
Session 10: Threat Detection and Adversarial Analysis
  1. ShellMamba: Anomaly Detection of Shell Command Sequences Qiwei Zong, Yongqiang Dong, Shishun Zhu and Xingshen Wei
  2. Knowledge Graph-Augmented Reasoning for Robust Multi-Modal Document Attack Detection Teng Li, Shengkai Zhang, Jia Tian, Yebo Feng, Li Yan, Zhuo Ma and Jianfeng Ma
  3. CSC: Turning the Adversary's Poison against Itself Yuchen Shi, Xin Guo, Huajie Chen, Tianqing Zhu, Bo Liu and Wanlei Zhou

Industry Track Sessions

Session 4: Security of Distributed Systems
  1. BRACE: Risk-Driven Dynamic Threshold Authorization for Cross-Chain Bridges Zhongyuan Yuan, Qi Xia, Jianbin Gao, and Hu Xia
  2. SGX-QKMS: Remotely Attested Key Relaying in Quantum Key Distribution Networks Krišjānis Petručeņa, Sergejs Kozlovičs, Juris Vīksna, Elīna Kalniņa, Edgars Celms, Edgars Rencis, Rihards Balodis, and Ināra Opmane
  3. FedSOAR: Robust Federated Learning via Dual-Metric Graph Topology and Directional Alignment Yanyu Tong, Changrui Zheng, Wenye Xing, and Jiageng Chen
  4. SoK: A Comprehensive Security Analysis of Jailbreak Resilience in GPT and DeepSeek Models Xiaodong Wu, Xiangman Li, Qi Li, Lingshuang Liu, and Jianbing Ni
  5. Breaking and Defending LLM-Powered Social Media Bot Detection Systems Nof Orenstein, and Yoni Birman
Session 7: Applied Cryptography
  1. CP-SpartanDL: An Efficient CP-zkSNARK in The Discrete Log Setting Xuangang Yan, Zibo Zhou, and Zongyang Zhang
  2. Σ-Orchestra: A Harmonized Lattice-based Σ-Protocol for Polynomial Relations with Exact ℓ2-Soundness Lizhen Zhang, Shang Gao, and Bin Xiao
  3. Efficient Homomorphic String Search via TFHE Shintaro Narisada, Hiroki Okada, Takashi Nishide, and Kazuhide Fukushima
  4. Decentralized Biometric Authentication via Threshold-Based Key Derivation Haoze Cheng, Hui Cui, and James Boorman
  5. The Related Key Boomerang Attack on ChaCha Permutation Function Nasratullah Ghafoori and Atsuko Miyaji
Session 11: Networked Systems Security
  1. 6Digger: An IPv6 Target Generation Algorithm Based on Address Pattern Mining Hongtao Zhang, Luyang Li, Liancheng Zhang, Shunlong Hao, Haojie Zhu, Ce Sun, and Yangxiang Zhou
  2. Breaking and Fixing Spoed Yan Jia, Peng Wang, Lei Hu, Gang Liu, Tingting Guo, and Shuping Mao
  3. Physics-Informed Residual Learning for Channel-Robust LoRa Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Elisée Toe, Laurent Ferrier, and Fehmi Jaafar
  4. Privacy Risk Assessment Framework for Information System Raisa Islam and Dongwan Shin

Student Symposium

Session 5: Student Symposium
  1. Cryptanalysis of an Unbounded Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme Hyewon Sung and Mehdi Tibouchi
  2. Response-Level Identification of Cloud API Misconfigurations Using Large Language Models Akshay Krishna and Farzana Zahid
  3. Evaluating Synthetic Voice Detection in High-Resource and Low-Resource Languages: A Study of Audio Features Samuel Johnny, Triphonia Kilasara, Assane Gueye and Jema David