Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2026 : 45th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Rome, Italy, May 10-14, 2026, Proceedings, Part VII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This seven-volume set, LNCS 16541-16547, constitutes the proceedings of the 45th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2026, held in Rome, Italy, during May 10 14, 2026.

The 142 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 675 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Signatures; Quantum Cryptography Part II: Applied Cryptography Part III: Multi-Party Computation Part IV: Post-Quantum Cryptography Part V: Foundations Part VI: Symmetric Cryptography and Related Techniques Part VII: Zero-Knowledge; Hardware and Embedded Systems

.- Zero-Knowledge; Hardware and Embedded Systems. .- Polylogarithmic Proofs for Multilinears over Binary Towers. .- Cyclo: Lightweight Lattice-based Folding via Partial Range Checks. .- Soloist: Distributed SNARK for R1CS with Constant Proof Size. .- Query-Optimal IOPPs for Linear-Time Encodable Codes. .- Jagged Polynomial Commitments (or: How to Stack Multilinears). .- Spectra: Interval-Agnostic Vector Range Argument for Unstructured Range Assertions. .- Dynark: Making Groth16 Dynamic. .- Sum-check protocol for approximate computations. .- Special Soundness and Binding Properties: A Framework for Tightly Secure zk-SNARKs. .- $k$-out-of-$n$ Proofs and Applications to Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies. .- Robust Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Combiners. .- Dynamic zk-SNARKs (with Applications to Sparse zk-SNARKs and IVC). .- Critical Rounds in Multi-Round Proofs: Proof of Partial Knowledge and Trapdoor Commitments. .- How to Prove Post-Quantum Security for Succinct Non-Interactive Reductions. .- The Black-Box Simulation Barrier Persists in a Fully Quantum World. .- A Modular Approach to Succinct Arguments for QMA. .- On the Security of Linear Secret Sharing with General Noisy Side-Channel Leakage. .- PERSEUS Äì Probabilistic Evaluation of Random probing SEcurity Using efficient Sampling. .- PaCMan Äì Partition-Code Masking for Combined Security. .- Single-Trace Key Recovery Attacks on HQC Using Valid and Invalid Ciphertexts. .- Accelerating and verifying constant-time modular inversion.