[TYPES/announce] IEEE CSF 2026: CFP Summer Cycle - Deadline July 24, 2025, AoE

[Ralf Kuesters]

IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) 2026
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Call for Papers - Summer Cycle (Deadline July 24, 2025, AoE)

The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual 
conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on 
foundational aspects of computer security, such as formal security 
models, relationships between security properties and defenses, 
principled techniques and tools for design and rigorous analysis of 
security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF 
welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed below, the main focus of 
CSF is foundational security and privacy. Papers lacking foundational 
aspects risk desk rejection without further evaluation of their merits; 
contact the PC chairs when in doubt.

CSF 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.

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and 
will be available at the symposium. Some small number of papers will be 
selected by the Program Committee as "Distinguished Papers".

Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
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Summer cycle paper submission   	July 24, 2025
Summer cycle author notification   	September 25, 2025
Fall cycle paper submission   		October 9, 2025
Fall cycle author notification   	December 11, 2025
Winter cycle paper submission   	January 29, 2026
Winter cycle author notification   	April 1, 2026
CSF Symposium   			July 26-29, 2026


Topics
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New results in security and privacy are welcome. We also encourage 
challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise 
fundamental concerns about security and privacy. Possible topics for all 
papers include, but are not limited to:

access control
accountability
anonymity
attack models
authentication
blockchains and smart contracts
cloud security
cryptography
data provenance
data and system integrity
database security
decidability and complexity
decision theory
distributed systems security
electronic voting
embedded systems security
forensics
formal methods and verification
hardware-based security
information flow control
intrusion detection
language-based security
mobile security
network security
privacy
security and privacy aspects of machine learning
security and privacy for the Internet of Things
security architecture
security metrics
security policies
security protocols
software security
socio-technical security
trust management
usable security
web security

Full information, including paper formatting instructions, is available 
online: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://csf2026.ieee-security.org/cfp.html__;!!IBzWLUs!U5P01MtL9-FqfVYCsK9uePZpCCbpaIzaSS1rZriEHrt21R1Qhs1u0AOiLwCAGUkA6P-kHLmSnWt6yZBcs72Hu9wxraCulMJs75pfXUiJzpnIPil_AQ$