Submission Instructions for CT-RSA 2020


Link to the submission server: https://secure.iacr.org/websubrev/rsact2020/submit/


Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published/submitted in a journal or a conference/workshop with proceedings. Authors may also not submit the work to any other venue with published proceedings until the date of acceptance notification. Accepted submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that has proceedings. The CT-RSA 2020 chair reserves the right to share information about submissions with other program committees or journal editors to detect parallel submissions. In addition, the CT-RSA 2020 chair reserves the right to contact an author's institution/corporation and/or other appropriate organizations if an irregular submission is detected.

Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with a title, and a short abstract. The length of the main body of the paper should be at most 24 pages including bibliography using Springer's LNCS package (see instructions at springer: instructions for authors) with no changes to the style.

Authors submitting an systematization of knowledge paper should have a title consisting of "SoK: Title". This is to ensure the committee are made aware that the paper is an SoK paper, and so will be reviewed with different criteria.

Any number of clearly marked appendices may be supplied following the main body of the paper. However, the committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Submitted papers must be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically to the above website.

The proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference. Each publication will be limited to 24 pages including the bibliography, and the submitted paper should represent what the authors expect to finally publish.

Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. The presenter of each paper will be given a free Full Pass to the RSA Conference.

Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy: The COI rule at CT-RSA 2020 is that the following direct relationships constitute a conflict of interest: Colleagues in the same department or company, (current and former) students, and advisors.

In case of any questions please do not hesitate to contact PC chair for advice at ctrsa2020chair@gmail.com.