Paper Submission

The submission server for Volume 2025, Issue 2 is open. Click here for submission.

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 mandatory that accepted papers at the IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology journal are presented at the corresponding FSE event.

Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2025, Issue 2:

  • Submission: 1 March 2025
  • Rebuttal: 5-8 April 2025
  • Decision: 1 May 2025
  • Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 May 2025

Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2025, Issue 3:

  • Submission: 1 June 2025
  • Rebuttal: 5-8 July 2025
  • Decision: 1 August 2025
  • Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 August 2025

Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2025, Issue 4:

  • Submission: 1 September 2025
  • Rebuttal: 5-8 October 2025
  • Decision: 1 November 2025
  • Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 28 November 2025

Volume IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology 2026, Issue 1:

  • Submission: 23 November 2025
  • Rebuttal: 2-6 January 2026
  • Decision: 23 January 2026
  • Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers (and conditionally accepted): 20 February 2026

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