Call for papers
Paper submission
Communications in Cryptology is a journal for original research
papers which welcomes submissions on any topic in cryptology. This
covers all research topics in cryptography and cryptanalysis,
including but not limited to
- foundational theory and mathematics
- the design, proposal, and analysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols
- secure implementation and optimization in hardware or software
- real-world aspects of cryptography and its general application
In addition, the journal also accepts survey and historical articles on the above topics.
Important Dates for CiC Volume 2024/1
Monday
Jan 8, 2024
Submission deadline, at 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Monday - Friday
Feb 12-16, 2024
Rebuttal phase
Tuesday
Mar 5, 2024
Notification
Friday
Apr 5, 2024
Final version due
Submissions must be written in English and be anonymous, with no
author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious
references. They must begin with a title, a short abstract, and a
list of keywords. The introduction should summarize the
contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a
non-specialist reader.
Submissions must be typeset using the iacrcc LaTeX class,
available
here using
\documentclass[version=submission]{iacrcc}.
The class
webpage provides documentation and a
template how to use this class. The initial submission must be
submitted electronically in PDF format, but the LaTeX source
must be submitted for the final version.
The page limit for regular papers is 20 pages excluding
bibliography. Authors are encouraged to include supplementary material
that can assist reviewers in verifying the validity of the results at
the end of the paper. Supplementary material that does not require
extra reviewing effort (such as test values, source code, or charts)
will be published with the paper, but is not included in the page
count. However, material that requires careful reviewing (such as
proofs of the main theorems) will be included in the page count, even
if it is put in the supplementary material or an appendix.
If authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the
claims of their paper or to provide proofs, they can submit a longer
paper (with no page limit); this should be indicated in the submission
process by choosing the option “long paper”. For long papers of up to
40 pages, the decision may be deferred to the next round at the
discretion of the Editors-in-Chief to allow for sufficient time to
carefully review the work. For papers longer than 40 pages, the first
round of review may be dedicated only to evaluating whether the length
of the papers is justified by the scientific contribution. Moreover,
the decision may be deferred by one or more rounds at the discretion
of the Editors-in-Chief.
Submissions must not substantially duplicate published work or work
that has been submitted in parallel to any other journal or
conference/workshop with published proceedings, and cannot be
submitted to any other venue before the notification date. Accepted
submissions may not appear in any other conference or workshop that
has proceedings. The IACR reserves the right to share information
about submissions with other program committees to detect parallel
submissions and the CiC Policy on Irregular Submissions
will be strictly enforced. Making a preprint available online, for
example via the IACR ePrint archive,
is not considered a prior publication in this context.
Submitting authors must follow the CiC publication ethics and duties
for authors as explained here.
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors and Editorial Board members must follow the CiC Conflicts of
Interest policy available here.
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.