Submissions must be at most 30 pages excluding any auxiliary
supporting material, and using the Springer LNCS format (in
particular, do not modify the LNCS default font sizes or
margins). Details on the Springer LNCS format can be
obtained here.
It is strongly encouraged that submissions are processed in
LaTeX. All submissions must have page numbers (e.g., using
LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}). Submissions
must be submitted electronically in PDF format.
All submissions will be blind-refereed and thus must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. Submissions should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords, followed by an introduction, a main body and an appendix (if any), within 30 pages. References must also be included but need not fit in the 30 page limit. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at the level understandable for a non-expert reader.
Optionally, if an author desires, a zip file of clearly-marked auxiliary supporting material can be appended to the submission. The auxiliary supporting material has no prescribed form or page limit and might be used, for instance, to provide program code, additional experimental data, etc. If the paper has previously been submitted (including to other venues), authors are strongly encouraged to submit prior reviews, together with a description of the authors' responses, as part of the auxiliary .zip file. The reviewers are not required to read the auxiliary supporting material and submissions should be intelligible without it.
Systematization of knowledge papers must be identified by the prefix "SoK:" in the title.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection
without consideration of their merits.
Submission deadline
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Rebuttal deadline
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The final published version of an accepted paper is expected to closely match the submitted 30 pages.
For papers that are accepted, the length of the proceedings version will be at most 30 pages plus references, using Springer’s standard fonts, font sizes, and margins (an earlier version of this webpage mistakenly said that references were included in the 30 pages - they're not). The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers must complete the IACR copyright assignment form for their work to be published in the proceedings. Moreover, authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and agree that the presentations will be video recorded during the event. The camera-ready version of the accepted articles will be automatically uploaded to the IACR ePrint server.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to a journal or any other conference/workshop that has proceedings. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. IACR reserves the right to share information about submissions with other program committees to detect parallel submissions and the IACR policy on irregular submissions will be strictly enforced.
Articles will not be reviewed by reviewers who have a conflict of interest with at least one author of the submission. Submissions must adhere to the IACR Policy on Conflicts of Interest.
The Program Committee may select a paper for the best paper award.
Authors, program committee members, and reviewers must follow the IACR Policy on Conflicts of Interest, available from https://www.iacr.org/docs/.
In particular, the authors of each submission are asked during the submission process to identify all members of the Program Committee who have an automatic conflict of interest (COI) with the submission. A reviewer1 has an automatic COI with an author if:
A reviewer has an automatic COI with a submission if:
Any further COIs of importance should be separately disclosed. It is the responsibility of all authors to ensure correct reporting of COI information. Submissions with incorrect or incomplete COI information may be rejected without consideration of their merits.
COIs are not restricted to automatic ones, others being possible. COIs beyond automatic COIs could involve financial, intellectual, or personal interests. Examples include closely related technical work, cooperation in the form of joint projects or grant applications, business relationships, close personal friendships, instances of personal enmity. Full transparency is of utmost importance, authors and reviewers must disclose to the chairs or editor any circumstances that they think may create bias, even if it does not raise to the level of a COI. The editor or program chair will decide if such circumstances should be treated as a COI.