Paper Submission | IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology (original) (raw)
The submission server for Volume 2026, Issue 2 is open! The deadline of Vol. 2026, Issue 2 is 1 March 2026 AoE.
General Information
Submissions should be typeset in LaTeX, see below.
LaTeX Template
The "IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology" journal requires articles to be typeset in the iacrtrans LaTeX class. The class is based on standard LaTeX classes and packages (mainly the article class with amsmath), and should be similar in use to the llncs class used for Springer’s proceedings. The class comes with a documentation that is meant as an example to show the usage of the class. For a quick conversion FAQ, see below.
The class is still in development and feedback and comments are welcome. The latest template can be downloaded from GitHub, and issues with the template can be discussed there.
Timeline
All upcoming deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Note that it is highly encouraged that accepted papers at the IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology journal are presented at the corresponding FSE event. In case no author can travel due to unavoidable reasons, a presentation has to be recorded before the conference, and the recorded version can be shown at the conference.
Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2026, Issue 2:
- Submission: 1 March 2026
- Rebuttal: 5-8 April 2026
- Decision: 1 May 2026
- Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 May 2026
Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2026, Issue 3:
- Submission: 1 June 2026
- Rebuttal: 5-8 July 2026
- Decision: 1 August 2026
- Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 August 2026
Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2026, Issue 4:
- Submission: 1 September 2026
- Rebuttal: 5-8 October 2026
- Decision: 1 November 2026
- Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 November 2026
Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2027, Issue 1:
- Submission: 1 December 2026
- Rebuttal: 5-8 January 2027
- Decision: 1 February 2027
- Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 February 2027
Converting llncs Paper to iacrtrans
If you have a paper typeset with the llncs class, conversion should be relative easy. The following steps should be sufficient in most cases (for the submission version):
- Replace \documentclass{llncs} with \documentclass[submission]{iacrtrans}
- Replace \bibliographystyle{splncs03} with \bibliographystyle{alpha}
- Add a \keywords{} command before the abstract, with keywords seperated by \and
- Remove commands that might override the class style, such as \pagestyle{...} or \thispagestyle{...}, change of margins (e.g. with the geometry package), change of fonts,...
- See also the package documentation