Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committee on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 185,  May 27, 2025 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   
• Trojan Logo Design Contest

  IEEE Computer Society's Technical Community on Security and Privacy (TCSP) have used a Trojan logo for multiple decades. While the Trojan served its purpose well, it is time to consider a more modern Trojan logo design.

  We solicit new Trojan logo submissions from the security and privacy community. Submissions will be accepted through August 15, 2025. Once the submission process closes, a voting to determine the winning design will take place. Voting will be open to TCSP members and active security and privacy research community members.

  Submit your Trojan design here: https://tally.so/r/31x2NO

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Commentary and Opinion

    • Sven Dietrich's review of the book, Differential Privacy by Simson Garfinkel

    • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

      • Security and Privacy Symposium Test of Time Awards
      • Inverters With Friends
      • Vulnerabilities of Yore Forecast Exploits Galore
      • Domain Today, Dark Tomorrow
      • Aid For Ukraine Is Watched Remotely
      • Dark Web Marketplace Goes Dark
      • Your Cheating Car Will Tell on You
      • Long Arm, Slow Wheels, High Emissions

    • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

    • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

    • News items from past Cipher issues

   

  • Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
    

   

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
    Requests for inclusion in the list should be sent per instructions.
      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E187 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • IFIP TC-11 SEC 2025 40th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, May 21-23, 2025.
  • WNDSS 2025 International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security, Co-located with the 40th International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025), Maribor, Slovenia, May 23, 2025.
  • ICICS 2025 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, October 29-31, 2025.
    Submission date: 9 March 2025 and 23 May 2025.
  • TX4Nets 2025 2nd International Workshop on Trustworthy and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Networks, Co-located with IFIP Networking 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, May 25-29, 2025.
  • ACSAC 2025 41th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 8-12, 2025.
    Submission date: 30 May 2025.
  • SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, MAY 18-21, 2026.
    Submission date: 5 June 2025 and 13 November 2025.
  • CVC 2025 8th Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology, Zug, Switzerland, June 5-6, 2025.
  • IWSPA 2025 11th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, Co-located with ACM CODASPY 2025, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 6, 2025.
  • CSF 2025 38th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2025.
  • WEIS 2025 24th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Tokyo, Japan, Jun 23-25, 2025.
  • WTMC 2025 10th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Co-located with the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2025), Venice, Italy, June 30, 2025.
  • ACM WiSec 2025 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Arlington, Virginia, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025.
  • IEEE EuroS&P 2025 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2025.
  • SACMAT 2025 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Stony Brook, NY, USA, July 8-10, 2025.
  • ICISS 2025 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security, Indore, India, December 16-20, 2025.
    Submission date: 10 July 2025.
  • PETS 2025 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Washington, DC and Online, July 14-19, 2025.
  • APWG eCrime 2025 20th APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, San Diego, CA, USA, November 4-7, 2025.
    Submission date: 15 July 2025.
  • DFRWS-USA 2025 25th Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 22-25, 2025.
  • CSR 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Chania, Crete, Greece, August 4-6, 2025.
  • NDSS 2026 Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-27, 2026.
    Submission date: 23 April 2025 and 6 August 2025.
  • ARES 2025 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Ghent, Belgium, August 10-13, 2025.
  • EDId 2025 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025), Ghent, Belgium, August 11-14, 2025.
  • ENS 2025 8th International Workshop on Emerging Network Security, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025), Ghent, Belgium, August 11-14, 2025.
  • CUING 2025 9th International Workshop on Cyber Use of Information Hiding, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025), Ghent, Belgium, August 11-14, 2025.
  • USENIX Security 2025 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025.
  • USENIX Security 2026 Submission date: 26 August 2025 and 5 February 2026.
  • PST 2025 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust, Fredericton, Canada, August 26-28, 2025.
  • ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, Special Issue on Distributed Ledger Technologies for Trustworthy Internet of Vehicles.
    Submission date: 31 August 2025.
  • Journal of Systems Architecture, Special Issue of Journal of Systems Architecture on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Cities.
    Submission date: 31 August 2025.
  • ESORICS 2025 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Toulouse, France, September 22-26, 2025.
  • ACM CCS 2025 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025.
  • MarCaS 2025 3rd LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 50th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2025), Sydney, Australia, October 14-16, 2025.
  • ICICS 2025 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, October 29-31, 2025.
  • APWG eCrime 2025 20th APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, San Diego, CA, USA, November 4-7, 2025.
  • SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, MAY 18-21, 2026. Submission date: 5 June 2025 and 13 November 2025.
  • CANS 2025 24th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, Osaka, Japan, November 17-20, 2025.
  • ACSAC 2025 41th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 8-12, 2025.
  • ICISS 2025 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security, Indore, India, December 16-20, 2025
  • USENIX Security 2026 Submission date: 26 August 2025 and 5 February 2026.
  • NDSS 2026 Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-27, 2026.
  • SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, MAY 18-21, 2026.
  • USENIX Security 2026
 

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