Important Dates
May 25 2021
Submission deadline at 21:00 UTC
Aug 27 2021
TCC notification
Sep 17 2021
Camera ready
Nov 8 2021
Conference begins
For further details, consult the paper submission page.
TCC 2021
This page has been substantially updated on April 26 2021. If you have formatted your submissions using instructions older than this, please check these to make sure your submission follows them.
Please read the submission instructions. They change somewhat from year to year.
The submission should begin with a title, followed by the names,
affiliations and contact information of all authors, and a short
abstract. It should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas,
techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear
comparison with related work. The authors have two choices for the
paper format. They may typeset their paper using Springer LNCS
format with page numbers enabled (\pagestyle{plain}),
keeping spacing, font sizes, and margins provided by the format.
Alternatively, they may typeset their paper to fit on US letter or
ISO A4 paper with at least 11pt font and reasonable spacing and
margins. There is no page limit, but the paper should be
intelligible by reviewers who are not required to read past the
15th page of the Springer format or past the 12th page of any other
format (the bibliography does not need to appear in the first 12 or
15 pages, respectively). Final versions of accepted papers must be submitted in the LNCS format.
Submission deadline at 21:00 UTC
TCC notification
Camera ready
Conference begins
For further details, consult the paper submission page.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that was published elsewhere, or work that any of the authors has submitted in parallel to any other journal, conference, or workshop that has proceedings; see the IACR policy on irregular submissions for more information. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to present the paper at the conference; presentations may be recorded and made available to the public online. Authors are strongly encouraged to post full versions of their submissions in a freely accessible online repository, such as the Cryptology ePrint archive. We encourage the authors to post such a version at the time of submission (in which case the authors should provide a link on the title page of their submission). At the minimum, we expect that authors of accepted papers will post a full version of their papers by the camera-ready deadline. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made public by the PC following the notification.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection
without consideration of their merits.
At submission time, authors must provide one or several email addresses for corresponding authors. Throughout the review period, at least one corresponding author is expected to be available to receive and quickly answer questions (via email) that arise about their submissions.
Papers must be submitted electronically through the submission web page (see button at the top of this page). The authors are allowed to revise the paper any number of times before the submission deadline, and only the latest submitted version will be seen by the PC. Therefore, the authors are advised not to wait until the last moment for the initial submission.
This prize is for the best paper authored solely by young researchers, where a young researcher is a person that at the time of the paper's submission is at most two years past his/her graduation from a PhD program. Eligibility must be indicated at the time of submission (using a checkbox in the submission form). The program committee may decline to make the award, or may split it among several papers.
Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) with Springer. The on-line version will be available at the conference. Physical books will be available after the conference for a separate fee. Instructions for preparing the final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on the camera- ready deadline listed above. This is a strict deadline, and authors should prepare accordingly.
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person is involved in multiple interests, one of which could affect the judgment of that individual. A general rule is that anyone is considered in conflict if a reasonable person would question the individual as an impartial reviewer, once relevant information is given.
We say that a reviewer has an automatic COI with an author if:
A program committee member with an automatic COI with an author of a paper should be blocked from seeing the discussion on the paper. Program committee members and any other reviewer will also need to declare any other COI.
If the authors feel that certain experts are strongly biased against their paper, they should inform the PC chairs about it in the submission form in the "comments to chair" field.