Important dates
Feb 13, 2025
Submission deadline at 23:59 AoE (anywhere on earth)
Apr 7, 2025
First round notification
Apr 12, 2025
Rebuttal deadline
May 3, 2025
Final notification
Aug 17, 2025
Conference begins
Paper Submission
Authors are strongly encouraged to read the call for papers
first, then follow the detailed instructions below for submitting papers.
Formatting
The main body of the submission must be at most 30 pages long, followed by references. References do not count towards the 30 page limit. The submission should begin with a title, a short abstract, an introduction and a technical overview, which should contain the main ideas of the paper. Any amount of clearly marked supplemental material may be supplied, either as an appendix to the main body of the paper or in separate files. However, reviewers are not required to read any supplemental material; submissions are expected to be intelligible without it.
Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX using the
Springer LNCS format and submitted
electronically in PDF format. You should not modify the LNCS default fonts, sizes, or margins. More details on the Springer LNCS format are available on their website. All submissions must
have page numbers (e.g., using LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}). The use of BibTeX in conjunction with LNCS's
bibliography style
splncs04.bst is strongly recommended. The use of CryptoBib is also encouraged.
Submissions not meeting the above guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Anonymity
Submissions must be anonymous with no author names, affiliations, or obvious references. The list of authors is requested separately on the submission form; it will be known to the program co-chairs but not made available to the rest of the program committee unless the paper is accepted. Note that, per IACR guidelines for authors, the anonymity requirement does not preclude the authors from posting nonanonymized versions of their work online or talking about it.
Exclusivity
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, The IACR policy on irregular submissions will be strictly enforced.
Publication & presentation
The proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available online. The authors of accepted papers are expected to upload their papers to the Cryptology ePrint Archive and will be required to complete the IACR copyright assignment form. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper in person at the conference. Let the program committee chairs know if you need an exception (for example, due to lack of funding, illness or visa problems). The presentations will be recorded during the event and added to the IACR Youtube channel after the conference.
Prior reviews
If the submission was rejected from prior conferences, the authors are encouraged to include in their supplementary materials their responses to prior reviews, as described in the IACR guidelines for authors.
PC member restrictions
Program committee members are allowed to submit one paper if without student co-authors, two papers if at least one of them has a student co-author, and three papers if all of them have student co-authors. Program committee co-chairs are not allowed to submit any papers.
Conflicts of interest
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:
- one is or was the thesis advisor to the other, no matter how long ago;
- they shared an institutional affiliation within the prior two years2;
- they published two or more jointly authored works in the last three years3; or
- they are immediate family members4
A reviewer has an automatic COI with a submission if:
- the reviewer has an automatic COI with any of its authors;
- the reviewer is authoring a paper (in submission5 or in preparation) whose content substantially overlaps with that of the submission;
- the reviewer has made a contribution to the submission (i.e. the submission is the result of a collaboration that did not result in the reviewer's authorship)
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.
1 Reviewers include program committee members for
conference publications, editorial board members for journal
publications (Journal of Cryptology) and journal-conference hybrid
publications (ToSC and TCHES), sub-reviewers, referees for journal
publications, and individuals doing ad hoc reviews for a program
chair or editor
2 Sharing an institutional affiliation means working at
the same location/campus of the same company/university. It does
not include separate universities of the same system nor distant
locations of the same company.
3 Jointly authored work refers to jointly authored
papers and books, whether formally published or just posted online,
resulting from collaboration on a scientific problem. It usually
does not include joint editorial functions, like a jointly edited
proceedings volume. For online publication, the first posting (not
revisions) is the relevant date. Multiple versions of a paper
(conference, ePrint, journal) count as a single paper.
4 Immediate family members include at least parents,
children, siblings, spouse, or significant other.
5 The date relevant for a paper in submission is the
date when it was submitted.