6th International Conference on

Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA 2025)

A Joint Conference by IEEE CS & IAS Bangalore Chapter

September 5-6th, 2025

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

About PKIA 2025

The 6th International Conference on Public Key Infrastructure and its Applications (PKIA 2025) is a joint conference by IEEE CS (Computer Society) and IAS (Industry Application Society) Bangalore Chapter. It will be a premium venue for bringing together all stakeholders of a Public Key Infrastructure Ecosystem. The objective is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas from academia and industry on traditional and emerging topics and new paradigms in the areas of PKI, with a clear connection to real-world problems, systems or applications.

Call for Papers

Applications of PKI as a technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the recent years and is on the verge of becoming synonymous with trust in electronic transactions all over the world. The world of PKI has evolved as a robust and reliable system owing to the strong ecosystem - backed by the development in Cryptography, Protocols, Standards, Policy, Laws, Software libraries and hardware components. The objective is to provide a platform for exchanging of research concepts, brainstorming of emerging trends and best practices, showcasing of new and innovative PKI applications and presenting novel ideas from academia and industry with a clear connection to real-world problems, systems or applications. The conference therefore seeks submissions presenting innovative research and current developments in the areas of Public Key Infrastructures, Digital Certificates, Digital Signatures, Key Management, One-Time Signatures, Certificate-less secure communication, Time Stamping, PKI based Authentication etc. Submissions may focus on Modelling, Design, Analysis (incl. security proofs and attacks), Development (e.g. implementations), Deployment (e.g. system integration), and Maintenance (e.g. performance measurements, usability studies) of algorithms/ protocols/ standards/ implementations/ technologies / devices/ systems standing in relation with public key cryptography. Some topics of interest include but not limited to:

  • Advanced Cryptographic Methods for Digital Signing
  • Light Weight Cryptography and PKI
  • Security issues and Challenges in Crypto Tokens
  • PKI and FIDO
  • Policy and Legal support systems for PKI
  • Key Management Implementation and Issues
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection using PKI
  • Public Key Infrastructure Protection
  • Certificate Validation
  • Implementation of PKI Applications
  • Standard Libraries for PKI Applications
  • Quantum Cryptography
  • Post Quantum Cryptography
  • Standard Plug-ins for PKI enablement
  • PKI of IoT Security
  • Usability in PKI for ease of issuance of tokens
  • Human factors in PKI security
  • Dynamic Digital / Electronic Signatures
  • PKI for Securing Mobile APPs
  • Biometric and PKI enabled applications
  • PKI for Identity Management
  • PKI in e-Governance, e-Banking
  • Parallelized Cryptographic Implementations
  • Advances in Public Key Cryptography
  • Trust Models, Trust List etc

The use of generative AI software tools is permitted subject to the following requirements:

  • The AI systems have not been used to plagiarize, misrepresent, or falsify content.
  • The resulting work, in its entirety, accurately represents the authors' original research and novel intellectual contributions, and is not primarily the result of the AI tool's generative capabilities.
  • The authors accept full responsibility for the veracity and correctness of all material in their work, including any content generated by AI tools.

Note that all submissions will be checked using suitable AI content detectors

Double-Blind Reviewing

  • The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear anywhere in the submission. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. Use the third person to refer to the author's previous work, e.g., replace "as we have shown before" with "as shown before in [X]."
  • Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas. Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the PC Co-Chairs by email at pki@cdac.in.

Please submit your technical papers via Microsoft CMT for PKIA 2025 here.

Important Dates

(All the deadlines are in AoE)

Last Date for Submission: 30th April 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 30th June 2025

Camera-Ready Submission: 30th July 2025

C A L L
F O R
P A P E R S

The Committee

General Chair

  • Prof. R K Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay
  • Dr. S D Sudarsan, Executive Director, C-DAC Bangalore

General Co-Chair

  • Dr. Sunil Vuppala, Chair, IEEE CS Bangalore Chapter
  • Dr. Prasant Misra, Senior Scientist, TCS Research

Technical Program Committee

  • Dr. P V Anandamohan, Fellow IEEE (Chair)
  • Dr. Balaji R, Scientist 'F', C-DAC Bangalore (Co-Chair)
  • Prof. Ashutosh Saxena, Dean (R&D), CMRTC
  • Dr. Appala Naidu Tentu, Associate Professor, CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics
  • Dr. Kunal Abhishek, C-DAC Patna
  • Dr. Vishal Rathod, C-DAC Bangalore
  • Shri David Selvakumar, C-DAC Bangalore
  • Dr. Abey Jacob, C-DAC Bangalore
  • Shri Raghavendra Patil, C-DAC Bangalore
  • Shri Jitendra Kumar, C-DAC Bangalore
  • Shri Ramesh Laveti, C-DAC Bangalore
  • Shri Gopinath P, C-DAC Bangalore

Organizing Committee

  • Dr. Mohammed Misbahuddin, Scientist 'F', C-DAC Bangalore (Chair)
  • Mr. Gopal M M V, Manager (Marketing)
  • Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Joint Director
  • Mr. Gopinath P, Joint Director
  • Ms. Lavanya Palani, Principal Technical Officer
  • Mr. Shubham Goyal, Senior Project Engineer
  • Ms. Snehal Balwant Parbat, Project Engineer
  • Mr. Vishal Kumar Vaisya, Project Engineer
  • Ms. Vaijayanti Pande, Project Engineer
  • Mr. Ashok Kumar H G, Project Associate
  • Mr. Sabin P V, Project Associate

Publication Committee

  • Shri Anoop Kumar Pandey, Scientist 'E', C-DAC Bangalore (Chair)
  • Ms. Swati Singh, Project Engineer
  • Mr. Aakhil Ahammed K P, Project Associate

Web Committee

  • Mr. Akshay K, Project Associate

Venue

Date: 5-6th September 2025

Location: C-DAC, 68, Electronics City, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560100, India

Partners

The Controller of Certifying Authorities (CCA) has been appointed by the Central Government under section 17 of the Act for the purpose of IT Act. The office of the CCA aims at promoting the growth of e-Commerce and e-Governance through the wide use of digital signatures. The CAs issues Digital Signature Certificates to the subscribers. The CCA certifies the public keys of CAs using its own private key, which enables user in the cyberspace to verify that a given certificate is issued by a licenced CA. For this purpose it operates, the Root Certifying Authority of India (RCAI). More information can be found at: https://cca.gov.in

Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. C-DAC has today emerged as premier R&D organization in IT&E (Information Technlogies and Electronics) in the country working on strengthening national technological capabilities in the context of global developments. More information can be found at: https://www.cdac.in

Contact us

Contact Info

  • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, #68, Electronic City, Bangalore - 560100 Karnataka(India)
  • pki[at]cdac[dot]in
  • +91-8028523300