6 February 2026
Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Cryptography in 2025
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The editorial office of Cryptography would like to extend its sincere gratitude to all reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the journal quality by providing their expert opinion and evaluation of the submitted research.
We appreciate that thorough peer review demands considerable time and intellectual investment from our reviewers. In 2025, Cryptography received 451 review reports from contributors across 44 countries and territories, demonstrating the breadth of international expertise and scholarly engagement that has strengthened our publication standards.
The reviewers who agreed to have their names published this year are listed below in alphabetical order by first name. The editorial team acknowledges with gratitude all reviewers, named and anonymous alike, for their vital role in maintaining the scholarly standards of Cryptography.
| Abdulatif Alabdulatif | K. Abhimanyu Kumar Patro |
| Adamantia Stamou | Kai Zhang |
| Adriana Naydenova Borodzhieva | Laszlo Csirmaz |
| Ahmad Salman | Lazaros Moysis |
| Alexandru-Gabriel Tudorache | Lucian-Mihai Cosovanu |
| Anastasios Bikos | Łukasz Więcław |
| Aybeyan Selim | Manuel Fernández-Veiga |
| Bo-Wen Shen | Marek Góźdź |
| Chao Zheng | Maria Valtcheva Nenova |
| Cheonshik Kim | Mariana Durcheva |
| Chunjiong Zhang | Mengce Zheng |
| Chun-Wei Yang | Michalis Pavlidis |
| Dax Enshan Koh | Petre Anghelescu |
| Deyu Tong | Ravikumar Selvam |
| Dipayan Saha | Ricardo Villanueva Polanco |
| Elio Romano | Sabina Szymoniak |
| Elmo Benedetto | Sahar Ebadinezhad |
| Elvin Ugonna Eziama | Saloni Jain |
| Fatemeh Mosaiyebzadeh | Salvador Manich |
| Fatih Ozaydin | Spyros T. Halkidis |
| Feng Wang | Suo Gao |
| Francisco Javier Delgado-Cepeda | Tao Wang |
| George Routis | Todor Tagarev |
| George Teseleanu | Tomasz Grzes |
| Hanzhou Wu | Valeriy Andreev |
| Hsin-Yuan Chen | Washington Ramírez Montalvan |
| Hui Cui | Wei Feng |
| Ievgeniia Kuzminykh | Wei Ou |
| Ijaz Ahmad | Wen-Bin Hsieh |
| Islambek Saymanov | Xianyue Zhao |
| Jianwu Zhang | Xiaoyu Li |
| Jonathan Michael Blackledge | Yesem Kurt Peker |
| Jorge Herrera-Tapia | Yue Ma |
| José Antonio Montenegro Montes | Yuri L. Borissov |
| José Ricardo Cárdenas | Zlatan Moric |