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
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 (https://www.harryreidairport.com/). We encourage shuttles or ride-sharing.
Talk Tracks:
- Crypto & Privacy Village
- Creator Stages 2
- Creator Stages 3
- Creator Stages 4
- Creator Stages 5
- Creator Stages 6
- Community Stage
Friday
| Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS 5 | 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 4 | 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 |
| Community Stage | 16-17:00 | The National Fight Against ALPRs | Freddy Martinez, Sarah |
| 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 |
| CPV | 13-13:30 | Safety Without a Trail: Privacy Engineering a Community Safety App | Jasmine Sutton |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.
New to CPV and want to volunteer at Crypto & Privacy Village? We’d love to have you!
Volunteer orientation is on Thursday at 3-3:30pm. Please attend if you can.
All volunteers who sign-up for 3 spots* or more are eligible for a badge. Our Call for Volunteers will be launching soon!