TCC 2025

Paper Submission

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Instructions for authors

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). Final versions of accepted papers must be submitted in the LNCS format.

Important dates

May 27, 2025

Submission deadline, 23:59 anywhere on earth (AoE)

Aug 28, 2025

Final notification

Sep 25, 2025

Final versions due

Dec 2, 2025

Conference begins

Further details are available on 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 of accepted papers must complete the IACR copyright assignment form for their work to be published in the proceedings.

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.

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.