It is mandatory that the submission be processed in LaTeX2e and use the latest version of
Springer's LNCS format.
Submissions must use the default margins, line spacing, and font: the LaTeX file preamble must be
\documentclass{llncs} without any other package (e.g., times) modifying the font or the layout.
Submissions must display page numbers (e.g., by adding \pagestyle{plain} to the document preamble).
References should include DOIs where possible. The use of BibTex in conjunction with LNCS's bibliography style
splncs04.bst is strongly recommended. The use of CryptoBib is encouraged as well.
Submissions must be at most 27 pages long excluding references. Any amount of clearly marked supplementary material may be supplied, following the main body of the paper (code can be uploaded as a separate file); however, reviewers are not required to read any supplementary material, and submissions are expected to be intelligible, and show sufficient scientific quality and depth, without the supplementary material. The above in particular means that submissions are expected to present the core technical part of the result(s) in the main body.
Submission deadline at 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)
Affiliated events submission deadline at 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)
Rebuttal period begins
Rebuttal period ends
Final notification
Student stipend request deadline
Conference begins
When applicable, authors are encouraged to include in their supplementary materials their responses to reviews from prior IACR events, as described in IACR's Guidelines for Authors. The final published version of an accepted paper should have at most 30 pages in total.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection
without consideration of their merits.
Submitted papers must be in PDF format and submitted electronically via the submission server. The submission server asks for a list of authors. The list is not visible to reviewers. The list of authors should include all those, and only those, who have contributed to the submission. The list of authors will appear in the Contacts section of the submission form, where it can then be selected who should receive submission-related emails.
The submission must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, a short abstract, and an introduction. There is no requirement to include keywords, but they may be supplied if the authors wish to do so. The introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper in a manner that is understandable to a general cryptographic audience, and should discuss the relation with relevant works.
For papers that are accepted, the length of the proceedings version will be at most 30 pages using Springer's standard fonts, font sizes, and margins. 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, which is also explained below.
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.