The Passwords Conference is the world’s first conference dedicated to passwords, PINs, and digital authentication. Originally launched as a small workshop in 2010 by Per Thorsheim at the University of Bergen, Norway, it has grown significantly and has been hosted across Europe and the United States.

In 2014 and 2015, the conference accepted peer-reviewed papers published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (LNCS 9393, Trondheim 2014; LNCS 9551, Cambridge 2015). PasswordsCon 2026 will reintroduce a peer-reviewed paper track in Springer LNCS for it's 16th edition. It brings together researchers, practitioners, password crackers, and industry experts from around the world to explore challenges in authentication security, usability, and policy. PasswordsCon is known for its collaborative and informal environment, encouraging open discussion between participants and speakers throughout the event.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Full papers are welcome on any of the topics listed below or anything related to the topics, including human centred interaction topics.

Accepted papers will be published after the conference by Springer as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors must prepare their submissions — and, if accepted, their final camera-ready versions — using the Springer LNCS template.

· Guidelines for authors: https://link.springer.com/series/558/information-for-authors-and-editors

· Prior PasswordsCon proceedings in Springer LNCS: https://link.springer.com/conference/passwords

List of Topics

· Passwords & PINs

· Multifactor Authentication

· Password Cracking

· FIDO, WebAuthn, and Passkeys

· OAuth and OIDC

· Digital ID and IAM

· Identity Federation

· Authentication Frameworks

· ID Standardization and Regulation

· EU Digital ID and Digital Wallet

· NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity

· Password Managers

· Phishing for ID and Credentials

· Usability of Authentication

· Password Security Awareness

· ID Enrolment

· Remote Identity Verification

· Verifiable Credentials

· Social, Cultural & Economic Challenges for Secure Authentication

· AI, Machine Learning, Pattern Analysis (Code Breaking)

· eID Providers

· eID Tokens

· eID Business Models

· Biometric Authentication

· Authentication Assurance Levels

· Authentication Risk

· Cryptographic Credentials

Committees

Program Committee

1. Ita Ryan, Post Doc researcher at University College Cork, Ireland

2. David Malone, Professor at Maynooth University, Ireland

3. Peter Mayer, Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark

4. Leona Lassak, Post doc at University of Bochum

5. Sven Bugiel, Researcher, Tenure-Track Faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for

Information Security, Germany

6. Scott Ruoti, Associate professor, University of Tennessee

7. Ding Wang, Professor, Nankai University

8. Elizabeth Stobert, Associate Professor, Carleton University

9. Divyanshu Bhardwaj, PhD candidate, CISPA

10. Madison Pickering, PhD candidate, University of Chicago

11. Collins W. Munyendo, Post doc, UC Berkely

12. Haibo Cheng, Post doc, Peking University

13. Sana Maqsood, Associate professor, York University

14. John Ronan, PhD candidate, South Eastern Technological University, Ireland

15. Dan Farcus, PhD candidate, Maynooth University Ireland

16. Dean Brennan, PhD candidate, University of Limerick

17. Veerle Van Harten, PhD Candidate, TU Delft.

18. Siddharth Das Sarkar, PhD candidate, George Washington University.

Organizing Committee

• Dr Hazel Murray, chair of cybersecurity MTU, (Conference chair)
• Dr Ashley Sheil, cybersecurity researcher MTU (Programme chair)

Publication

PC26 proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Venue

The conference will be held in Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ashley.sheil@mtu.ie