Calls for Papers

Last Modified:3/20/23

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

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FSE 2023 29th Fast Software Encryption, Beijing, China, March 20-24, 2023. [posted here 8/29/22]
FSE 2023 is the 29th annual conference that is widely recognized as the internationally leading event in the area of symmetric cryptology. Since 2002, FSE is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), a global organization with more than 1600 members that brings together researchers in cryptology. FSE focuses on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography, that form the workhorse for all applications of cryptography (e.g., AES, SHA-2 and SHA-3). The event covers a broad range of practical and theoretical topics including the design and analysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers, encryption schemes, hash functions, message authentication codes, authenticated encryption schemes, cryptanalysis and evaluation tools, and secure implementations. The FSE conference event offers you the unique opportunity to meet more than 170 experts from across academia and industry.

For more information, please see https://fse.iacr.org/2023/.

FHE 2023 2nd Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Co-located with Real World Crypto 2023, Tokyo, Japan, March 26, 2023. [posted here 9/12/22]
First envisioned in the late seventies, the first realization for fully homomorphic encryption only came three decades later. Fully homomorphic encryption has since been an active research topic. The FHE.org conference aims at being the premier forum gathering researchers, technologists and practitioners working on the design, development, deployment, validation, and applications of fully homomorphic encryption. The program committee is seeking original contributions on all aspects of fully homomorphic encryption. Submissions across a broad range of the development phases are encouraged, from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical applications and deployment of fully homomorphic encryption and related technologies.

For more information, please see https://fhe.org/conferences/conference-2023/home.

CODASPY 2023 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Charlotte, NC, USA, April 24-26, 2023. [posted here 8/22/22]
The goal of the ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (CODASPY) is to discuss novel, exciting research topics in data and application security and privacy, and to lay out directions for further research and development in this area. The conference seeks submissions from diverse communities, including corporate and academic researchers, open-source projects, standardization bodies, governments, system and security administrators, software engineers and application domain experts. CODASPY 2023 will also feature a dataset and tool paper track, which will provide a unique venue for researchers and practitioners to make available and citable their work done to achieve datasets or tools relevant in security and privacy domain. Papers accepted in this track have to describe the available datasets or reporting on the design and implementation of application security and privacy tools. Dataset/tool papers are limited to 6 pages.
For more information, please see http://www.codaspy.org/2023/.

OSNeHM 2023 1st International workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse, Co-located with the Web Conference 2023, Austin, Texas, USA, April 30 - May 4, 2023. [posted here 12/26/22]
The cyber and physical worlds are increasingly becoming indistinguishable. This is fostered by enabling technologies such as IoT and pervasive networks, advanced data management and analytics techniques, and advanced platforms with massive diffusion, chiefly among them Online Social Networks. Whatever we do in one world has immediate consequences on the other world, thanks to a constant flow of data - and online analytics - between the two worlds.

In this context, the vision of the Metaverse provides additional perspectives, augmenting human interactions with things and other humans across the two worlds. The role of the humans in this socio-technical complex system is key, and still largely unexplored. Quite interestingly, while new tools characteristic of the cyber-physical world - OSN among them - have been designed to largely extend human capabilities, the real interplay between these tools and human behaviours and cognitive constraints often result in unexpected results. Therefore, while humans are in principle at the center of the cyber-physical convergence and, thus – in the perspective – of the Metaverse, the interplay between both worlds and the technical solutions underpinning this convergence are hitherto largely unexplored and yet to be understood.

OSNeHM’s main theme will be the role of Online Social Networks in such a human-centric cyber-physical convergence leading to the Metaverse. It will provide a forum for discussion on early yet principled approaches and results on all aspects related to this theme. A special emphasis will be devoted to the characterisation of the individual and social behaviour of humans, using OSN as "big data microscopes" for collecting and analysing big data via robust big data analytics. Papers discussing solutions focusing on the interplay between social and technical (online and offline) worlds will be high welcome. On the other hand, the workshop will welcome papers proposing novel technical solutions to support human-centric approaches to the evolution of OSN in the perspective of the Metaverse.

For more information, please see https://osnehm.iit.cnr.it/.

HOST 2023 16th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 1-4, 2023. [posted here 8/29/22]
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) is the premier symposium that facilitates the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. Since 2008, HOST has served as the globally recognized event for researchers and practitioners to advance knowledge and technologies related to hardware security and assurance. HOST 2023 invites original contributions in all areas of overlap between hardware and security. This includes but is not limited to the following:
- Hardware Trojans
- TRNGs and PUFs
- Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
- Hardware Obfuscation
- Architecture-level Security
- System/Board-level hardware security
- Cryptography-PQC
- Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures

For more information, please see http://www.hostsymposium.org.

SP 2023 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2022. [posted here 2/28/22]
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing case for the relevance of their results to practice. Topics of interest include:
- Applied cryptography
- Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
- Authentication, access control, and authorization
- Blockchains and distributed ledger security
- Cloud computing security
- Cyber physical systems security
- Distributed systems security
- Economics of security and privacy
- Embedded systems security
- Formal methods and verification
- Hardware security
- Hate, Harassment, and Online Abuse
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Machine learning and computer security
- Malware and unwanted software
- Network security
- Operating systems security
- Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity, and censorship
- Program and binary analysis
- Protocol security
- Security and privacy metrics
- Security and privacy policies
- Security architectures
- Security foundations
- Systems security
- Usable security and privacy
- Web security
- Wireless and mobile security/privacy

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Systematization of Knowledge Papers: As in past years, we solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate and may be rejected without full review. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix ìSoK:î in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, but they will be accepted based on their treatment of existing work and value to the community, and not based on any new research results they may contain. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings. You can find an overview of recent SoK papers at https://oaklandsok.github.io/.

For more information, please see https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2023/cfpapers.html.

SecMT 2023 International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies, Held in conjunction with ACNS2023, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-22, 2023. [posted here 3/13/23]
Despite being small computing devices, smartphones offer a wide range of functionalities and services to their users, which are currently estimated to be more than six billion people worldwide. This range of features introduces new security and privacy threats, which expose users to serious damages. Even though research in mobile security has been active over the past 10 years, as long as the mobile technology is used, new challenges will always come up. The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers, hardware and software developers, as well as practitioners and policy makers, to explore the latest advances in the security and privacy for mobile devices.

For more information, please see https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2023/ACNS_Workshop/index.html.

SecSoft 2023 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures, Co-located with IEEE NetSoft 2023, Madrid, Spain, June 23, 2023. [posted here 2/20/23]
This workshop is a joint initiative from the H2020 EU Projects FLUIDOS, PALANTIR, SIFIS-Home, ELECTRON, RIGOUROUS, and CATRIN to create a dialogue about emerging cyber-security paradigms for virtualized environments and critical infrastructures. This Workshop aims to gather together novel approaches for providing organizations the appropriate situational awareness in relation to cyber security threats allowing them to quickly detect and effectively respond to sophisticated cyber-attacks. Multi-disciplinary and collaborative research projects are encouraged to submit joint papers describing their integrated architectures and cyber-security platforms, with special emphasis on how they address the challenging cyber-security requirements of softwarized environments and critical infrastructures.

For more information, please see https://www.secsoft-workshop.org/.

MetaCom 2023 International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, June 26-28, 2023. [posted here 10/24/22]
MetaCom 2023 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for Metaverse.

Metaverse is one of the key enablers for the future society, which is envisioned to bring a new revolution to digital world. For Metaverse, physical world will be seamlessly integrated with cyber world through digitizing physical objects to create digital twins, which poses numerous challenges on human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, extremely high resource demands, low traffic, reliability and trustworthiness. To realize this vision, it becomes indispensable for the convergence of computing, networking and applications for Metaverse in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. The conference solicits submissions from all research areas related to Metaverse computing, networking, as well as their corresponding systems and applications, including Security, Privacy, and Trust.

For more information, please see http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023.

CSCML 2023 7th International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, Virtually, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 29-30, 2023. [posted here 1/23/23]
Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cybersecurity, cryptography, and machine learning systems and networks, and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results are solicited. The Symposium is an international forum for researchers, entrepreneurs, and practitioners in the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cybersecurity, cryptography, and machine learning systems and networks; and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results.

For more information, please see https://www.cscml.org/cscml2023.

Euro S&P 2023 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Delft, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2023. [posted here 11/7/22]
The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) is the younger, more adventurous, and tastier sibling conference of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland” or “NorCal S&P”) conference. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in security or privacy, as well as Systematization of Knowledge papers that systematize previous results. EuroS&P is interested in all aspects of applied computer security and privacy. We especially encourage papers that are far-reaching and risky, provided those papers show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and usefully questioning widely-held beliefs. Papers without a clear connection to security or privacy will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.
For more information, please see https://eurosp2023.ieee-security.org/cfp.html.

DFRWS 2023 23rd Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 9-12, 2023. [posted here 1/9/23]
DFRWS welcomes new perspectives that push the envelope of what is currently possible in digital forensic, and that provide practical solutions for real-world problems. This year we are especially looking for contributions in the following areas:
- Industrial control system / SCADA forensics
- Deleted data recovery and analysis from IaaS and SaaS environments
- Multimedia authentication, beyond theory to real-world applications
- Aerospace forensics, including analysis of satellite systems and communications

For more information, please see https://dfrws.org/conferences/dfrws-usa-2023/.

SECRYPT 2023 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Rome, Italy, July 10-12, 2023. [posted here 2/13/23]
SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged.

For more information, please see https://secrypt.scitevents.org.

ASIACCS 2023 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-14, 2023. [posted here 5/23/22]
We welcome submissions on all technical aspects of security and privacy, including "Systemization of Knowledge” (SoK) papers. However, purely theoretical (e.g., cryptography-focused, with no security/application connections) submissions are not encouraged. The same goes for submissions focused primarily on blockchains or machine learning. Submissions will fall into one of three categories, each reviewed using different criteria: (1) novel attacks/flaws/exploits, (2) new constructs, and (3) SoK-s. The number of accepted submissions will be carefully balanced across all three categories.

For more information, please see https://asiaccs2023.org/.

CSF 2023 36th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 10-14, 2023. [posted here 9/26/22]
The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay by Don Good entitled “The Foundations of Computer Security—We Need Some.” The meeting became a “symposium” in 2007, along with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. For more details on the history of the symposium, visit CSF's home.

The program includes papers, panels, and a poster session. Topics of interest include access control, information flow, covert channels, cryptographic protocols, database security, language-based security, authorization and trust, verification techniques, integrity and availability models, and broad discussions concerning the role of formal methods in computer security and the nature of foundational research in this area.

For more information, please see https://csf2023.ieee-security.org.

PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-15, 2023. [posted here 6/6/22]
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not required for publication in the proceedings. We will carefully monitor the COVID-19 situation, and may change the organization of the event as necessary.

For more information, please see https://petsymposium.org/cfp23.php.

USENIX Security 2023 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023. [posted here 6/6/22]
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to systems research in security and privacy. This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; USENIX Security is interested in all aspects of computing systems security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy of computing systems, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Important: In 2023, we are introducing substantial changes to the review process, aimed to provide a more consistent path towards acceptance and reduce the number of times papers reenter the reviewing process. Detailed information is available at USENIX Security Publication Model Changes. All researchers are encouraged to submit papers covering novel and scientifically significant practical works in computer security.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/call-for-papers.

NSS 2023 17th International Conference on Network and System Security, Canterbury, UK, August 14-16, 2023. [posted here 3/6/23]
Founded in 2007, the aim of the NSS (International Conference on Network and System Security) series is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. This year NSS 2023 will be co-located with SocialSec 2023 (9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data).

For more information, please see https://nss2023.cyber.kent.ac.uk/.