Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate on information security with a specific focus on financial and commercial systems. Original works on all aspects of financial security and privacy are solicited, from fundamental theory to real-world deployments. Submissions need not be exclusively concerned with cryptography. Systems security, economic or behavioral perspectives, and interdisciplinary efforts are particularly encouraged.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security has two submission tracks, a blockchain track that serves as the premier venue for cryptocurrency and blockchain research (subsuming the prior BITCOIN workshop), and a traditional track focusing on security and cryptography in all other financial and payment systems.
Topics of particular interest for the traditional track include all aspects of (non-blockchain) payment and financial systems, in particular:
Access Control
Anonymity and Privacy
Applied Cryptography
Auctions and Incentive Design
Authentication, Identification, and Biometrics
Banking and Financial Services Security
Behavioral Aspects of Security and Privacy
Certification and Audits
Cloud Computing and Data Outsourcing Security
Contactless Payment and Ticketing Systems
Digital Rights Management
Economics of Security and Privacy
Electronic Commerce Security
Electronic Crime and Underground Markets
Fraud Detection and Management
Game Theory for Security and Privacy
Legal and Regulatory Issues
Phishing and Social Engineering
Reputation Systems
Smart Contracts and Financial Instruments
Smartcards, Secure Tokens, and Secure Hardware
Trust Management
Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) Security and Applications
Usability and Security
Voting Systems
Web Security
Topics of particular interest for the blockchain track include, but are not limited to:
Applications Using or Built on Top of Bitcoin
The Bitcoin Protocol and Extensions
Blockchain Applications
Case Studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, …)
Cryptocurrency Adoption and Transition Dynamics
Digital Cash and Payment Systems
Distributed Consensus Protocols
Distributed Ledgers
Economic and Monetary Aspects of Cryptocurrencies
Economics and/or Game Theoretic Analysis of Cryptocurrency Protocols
Forensics and Monitoring
Fraud Detection and Financial Crime Prevention
Legal, Ethical and Societal Aspects of (Decentralized) Virtual Currencies
Peer-to-Peer Networks
Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchains
Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn
Real-world Measurements and Metrics
Regulation and Law Enforcement
Relation of Cryptocurrencies to Other Payment Systems
Smart Contract Analysis and Tools
Transaction Graph Analysis
Usability and User Studies