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CFAIL 2026:
CFAIL 2026 will take place on Saturday, August 15, 2026 as an affiliated workshop to Crypto 2026.
Many thanks to Ellen Kolesnikova for making this year's logo! And to Eli Goldin and Greg Rubin for co-designing our puzzle competition!
The Extended Abstracts
Unintended features of APIs: The OpenSSL bug that quietly disappeared.
by Nicky Mouha
The Siren Song of zkVMs: Lessons from a Failed Project to Build zk-SNARKS for Video Editing
by Alexander Frolov
Almost improving quantum lattice sieving
by Mathias Boucher
Batched Distributed Point Function from Sparse LPN and Homomorphic Secret Sharing
by Lucas Piske, Jaspal Singh, and Ni Trieu
The Program
In UCen Harbor:
9:15 - 9:30 Opening remarks
9:30- 10:00 Unintended features of APIs: The OpenSSL bug that quietly disappeared by Nicky Mouha
10:00-10:30 The Siren Song of zkVMs: Lessons from a Failed Project to Build zk-SNARKS for Video Editing by Alexander Frolov
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 -12:00 Batched Distributed Point Function from Sparse LPN and Homomorphic Secret Sharing
by Lucas Piske, Jaspal Singh, and Ni Trieu
12:00-12:30 Almost improving quantum lattice sieving by Mathias Boucher
12:30 Introduction of the CFAIL Puzzle Challenge
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break: Carrillo Dining Commons
14:00 - 15:15 Invited Talk: Unclonable Encryption: Recent AI-aided advancements by Prabhanjan Ananth
15:15 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00 Conclusion of the CFAIL Puzzle Challenge and CFAIL 2026 Music Video
17:45 - 19:00 Dinner break: Carrillo Dining Commons
19:00 - 21:00 Reception (UCen Lagoon Plaza) and Powerpoint Karaoke Competition (MCC Theater)