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CSF 2026: IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium

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Submission Date:
2026-01-29
Notification Date:
2026-04-01
Conference Date:
2026-07-26
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
Years:
39
CCF: b   CORE: a   Viewed: 57481   Tracked: 73   Attend: 11

Call For Papers

CSF 2026 (IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium) is a CCF B / CORE A conference held in Lisbon, Portugal on 2026-07-26. The paper submission deadline is 2026-01-29. Acceptance notifications are sent on 2026-04-01.

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". Submission Server Submit papers at https://hotcrp.csf2026.ieee-security.org/. Topics 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
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Acceptance Ratio

Average acceptance rate: 29.6% over 18 years (1999–2021).

YearSubmittedAcceptedAccepted(%)
20211724325%
2017943234%
2016873135.6%
20151023534.3%
2014832934.9%
2013731926%
20121012524.8%
2011812125.9%
2010812328.4%
2009932223.7%
20081152118.3%
20071012524.8%
20061022524.5%
2005962020.8%
2002842327.4%
2001542138.9%
2000482245.8%
1999471940.4%

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