CPV 13: Art Gallery
Our 13th annual Crypto & Privacy Village will be hosted at DEF CON 34. View our dates, location, hotels, airport, talk schedule, and volunteering info!
Venue
Our 13th annual Crypto & Privacy Village will be hosted at DEF CON 34.
When: 6-9 August 2026
Where: LVCC West Hall, 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Hotel, Airport, Transportation
Hotels: There are hotels across the street, such as the Fontainebleau or Marriotts. Volunteers and speakers bonded on shuttles from further hotels in 2024. You can book a room with DEF CON's (https://defcon.org/) discount room blocks.
Airport: Harry Reid International Airport (LAS/KLAS) in Las Vegas, Nevada, located at 5757 Wayne Newton Boulevard. We encourage shuttles or ride-sharing.
Transportation: If you're not walking, options can include:
1. Las Vegas Monorail with discounts on advance e-ticket purchases online
2. Ride share apps
3. Vegas Loop
Checklist: Things to Bring
For the DEF CON badge: Torx T6, spare AA batteries, and USB cables
For the Sun/UV index: sunscreen, hats, UV sleeves, double walled steel water bottles, coconut water or watermelon juice, consider not combining alcohol & sun; prepare and take care of yourself (Meaux's recommendations)
The weather will be 42-44ºC (112-113ºF), with UV indexes of 10 (burn time within 10 minutes of sun exposure) on all days. Please note Las Vegas is under an Extreme Heat Warning by the National Weather Service.
Talk Tracks:
- Crypto & Privacy Village
- Creator Stages 2
- Creator Stages 3
- Creator Stages 4
- Creator Stages 5
- Creator Stages 6
Friday
| Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 3 | 10:30-11:00 | What TEEs Do Not Hide: Residual Metadata Leakage in Confidential LLM Serving | Anup Swamy Veena |
| CPV | 12-12:30 | Cryptography in Action: Choosing the Right Primitives for Your Application | Austin Choi |
| CPV | 12:30-13:00 | No Cookies Required: Surveillance via XS-Leaks | Ali Kabeel |
| CS 4 | 13-13:30 | Trust the Basics, But Know Their Limits: Where Standard Cybersecurity Advice Falls Short | Yael Grauer |
| CS 4 | 14-14:30 | Inside the Guts of Ransomware | Ashley Muñoz |
| CS 6 | 14:30-15:00 | You're Probably Using FPE Wrong | Leslie Gutschow |
| CS 2 | 15:45-16:30 | Step Zero: Identifying the Quantum Attack Surface in Critical Infrastructure | Dr. Katrina Rosseini, Dr. Allan Friedman |
| CS 2 | 16:30-17:15 | Crypto Is Fine. The Code Is Not: Real-World Cryptographic Failures | Diptendu Kar |
| CS 2 | 17:15-18:00 | 2026 is the New 2016: Relearning the Lessons from the "Year of the Data Breach" | Anthony Hendricks |
Saturday
| Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 6 | 11-12:00 | Gold Bug: Puzzle Panel with Friends | The Gold Bug Team, Friends of Gold Bug |
| CS 6 | 14-15:00 | Forget FIPS: An Analysis of Russian and Chinese Cryptographic Standards | 1nfocalypse |
| CS 5 | 15-16:00 | The Agent Long Con: Tricking Agents Out of Their Data | Patrick Walsh |
| CPV | 15:30-16:00 | Safety Without a Trail: Privacy Engineering a Community Safety App | Jasmine Sutton |
| CS 3 | 16-16:30 | Quantum-Ready or Not: What 1,000 Codebases Reveal About Cryptographic Risk | Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan |
| CPV | 16:30-17:00 | TextC2: LLM-Based Natural-Language Steganography as a Covert Command Channel | Seiga Ueno |
| CPV | 17-17:45 | Externally Verifiable Signing-Decision Receipts: Evidence for the Signing-Layer Gap in Institutional Crypto Custody (Virtual) | Heartlin Machado |
| CS 4 | 17-18:00 | The National Fight Against ALPRs | Freddy Martinez, Sarah |
Sunday
| Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 6 | 11-11:30 | Cove: Compositional and Verifiable Confidential Computing Workflows | Stephanie, Robin, Erika Lee |
| CPV | 11:30-12:00 | TrackerDetector: Offline Detection of Nearby Tracking, Surveillance, and Location Manipulation | Geoff Horvath |
Volunteering
The Crypto & Privacy Village would not be possible without volunteers. We are wholly volunteer-run, volunteer-led, sponsorship-free. Thank you to all of our volunteers, old and new, for making the Crypto & Privacy Village at DEF CON possible! There are different volunteer roles available to choose from. Each play an important and vital role to make CPV successful.
Our Call for Volunteers is now closed.
Volunteer orientation is on Thursday at 3-3:30pm. Please attend if you can.