The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) is the younger, more adventurous, and tastier sibling conference of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland” or “NorCal S&P”) conference. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners.

We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in security or privacy, as well as Systematization of Knowledge papers that systematize previous results. EuroS&P is interested in all aspects of applied computer security and privacy. We especially encourage papers that are far-reaching and risky, provided those papers show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and usefully questioning widely-held beliefs. Papers without a clear connection to security or privacy will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.
Conference Expectations

We are committed to maintaining the engagement and sense-of-community benefits that come from a single-track conference, while avoiding any arbitrary limits on the number of papers that can be accepted. We aim for a review process that will be rigorous and thorough, resulting in the acceptance of every paper with scientific merit and sufficient value to the community, and incorporate a one-month revision opportunity in which the PC assists authors to try to get as many papers as possible to the level needed.

In order to support substantive presentations within the single-track constraint, though, this means that we are not promising that all accepted papers will be given the same presentation opportunity. What this means in practice will depend on the number of papers accepted, the nature of particular papers, and the architecture of the venue, and we are not committed to a particular presentation format or method for deciding how different accepted papers will be presented. We will endeavor to provide the authors of every accepted paper with a meaningful way to share their work with the community, but this may mean different things for different papers, such as poster sessions, videos and blogs, extended seminars, and live presentations in the main conference track.

Revision Option

Authors of papers that are not accepted may be invited to revise and resubmit their paper for a second round of reviews. Papers will be invited for revision if the program committee sees a path for revision that is likely to lead to acceptance, even though the initial submission was not considered acceptable. If authors who are invited to do so wish to submit a revised paper, they must do so within four weeks of the notification. Revised papers will be re-reviewed by the same reviewers who reviewed the original submission. Neither acceptance with shepherding nor an invitation to submit a revised paper implies that eventual acceptance is certain.

New in 2024: Meta Reviews

The discussions about individual papers are conducted “behind closed doors” within the set of reviewers. In the best case, reviewers will leave a summary of the discussion visible exclusively to the authors. To facilitate more transparency in the process of accepting papers, EuroS&P 2024 will feature a publicly available meta review (accessible through the EuroS&P website) for each accepted paper. This meta review will outline the PC’s main reasons for accepting the paper and may also contain limitations the PC identified.

Systematization of Knowledge Papers

We solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area; support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence; or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate.

Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix "SoK:" in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, except instead of emphasizing novel research contributions, the emphasis will be on their value to the community. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings.