Security Venues with No Page-Limit a short list
(February 2023)
What?
This website contains a comprehensive list of those cybersecurity venues that accept papers without any limit to the amount of pages dedicated to references and appendices.
How?
I simply take consider well-known venues (i.e., conferences, workshops or symposia) and check their Call for Papers (CfP): if such CfP specify that there is no limit for appendices/references, then I will list them in this website. Specifically, the list of venues is taken from this source: Guofei Gu ranking.
List
The list is provided in the table below. For each conference that has “unlimited” pages, the table also reports: the link to the most recent CfP, the amount of “base” pages (i.e., those subject to limitations), the template (DC=Double Column), the year in which the venue started to accept unlimited “extra” pages (since 2011), whether the venue accepts Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers, and whether the venue has a (dedicated) Artifact evaluation.
Note: I will also include venues that accept “unlimited” pages at the time of submission, but for which the final paper must fit within a specified limit (e.g., for USENIX Security); such venues are marked with an asterisk “(*)”. The ordering of the venues is the same as in Guofei Gu ranking (the only venue reported in this table and not listed in that ranking is IEEE SaTML, since it’s completely new). Venues that are not “active” anymore (e.g., MALCON, whose last edition was in 2017) are not included (see here for a list of included/excluded venues).
| # | Venue (Acronym) | CfP Link | Base Pages | Template | Since | SoK? | Artifact? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CCS | 2023 | 12 | ACM, DC | 2017 | ✔ | |
| 2 | Security(*) | 2023 | 13 | USENIX, DC | 2011 | ✔ | |
| 3 | NDSS | 2023 | 13 | NDSS, DC | 2020 | ||
| 4 | Crypto(*) | 2023 | 30 | LNCS, SC | 2011 | ||
| 5 | Eurocrypt(*) | 2023 | 30 | LNCS, SC | 2011 | ||
| 6 | RAID | 2023 | 12 | ACM, DC | 2019 | ||
| 7 | IMC | 2023 | 13 | ACM, DC | 2017 | ✔ | |
| 8 | PETS | 2023 | 12 | PETS, DC | 2023 | ✔ | ✔ |
| 9 | EuroS&P | 2023 | 13 | IEEE, DC | 2021 | ✔ | |
| 10 | CSF | 2023 | 12 | IEEE, DC | 2011 | ✔ | |
| 11 | AsiaCrypt | 2022 | 30 | LNCS, SC | 2013 | ||
| 12 | TCC | 2022 | 15 | LNCS, SC | 2011 | ||
| 13 | ACNS(*) | 2023 | 20 | LNCS, SC | 2015 | ||
| 14 | ICISC | 2022 | 20 | LNCS, SC | 2011 | ||
| 15 | SOUPS | 2023 | 12 | USENIX, DC | 2011 | ✔ | |
| 16 | FSE | 2023 | 20 | LNCS, SC | 2022 | ✔ | |
| 17 | PKC | 2023 | 30 | LNCS, SC | 2011 | ||
| 18 | FC | 2023 | 15 | LNCS, SC | 2015 | ✔ | |
| 19 | SaTML | 2022 | 12 | IEEE, DC | 2022 | ✔ |
I will update this list regularly, but feel free to email me if you spot a mistake (e.g., a missing venue), or if you want to refresh it sooner. Please include “[SNPL]” in the subject of the email (I will give proper credit to any contribution). Alternatively, you can post a message on the (public) GitHub project related to this website.
Why?
This website was inspired by the “Rump Session” of the 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (held on Wednesday, June 8th, 2022). In the few hours before the Rump Session I came up with a “draft” version of the website, which consisted in a simple spreadsheet (still accessible at: https://tinyurl.com/noapplim) that I shared with the attendees of the Rump Session. For various reasons, I decided to “upgrade” such version into a proper website.
The main reason is to help cybersecurity researchers in choosing to which venue they should submit their papers—since having plenty of space for appendices may be a deciding factor. To the best of my knowledge, there are no resources that aggregate all such information in a single list.
Nonetheless, there are deeper reasons that motivated me in creating this website, albeit most of them are subjective and stem from my (recent, and arguably limited) experience—both as a reviewer, and as an author. Put simply, it is to send a message to our community. As all such considerations are personal, I will not discuss them here: feel free to read them in the dedicated blog-post that I made on my personal website.
Venues with Page Limits
For completeness, below is a table of those venues (also from Guofei Gu rankings) that, at the time of writing, have page limits for their appendices (if any). For each “limited” venue, the table reports: the latest CfP, the length of base pages, the template, the length of “extra” pages (for appendices and/or references—an asterisk * denotes unlimited pages for references), and whether it accepts SoK and Artifacts. (credit to David Evans for recommending to include also this table!)
| # | Venue (Acronym) | CfP Link | Base Pages | Template | Extra Pages | SoK? | Artifact? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S&P (Oakland) | 2023 | 13 | IEEE, DC | 5 | ✔ | |
| 2 | ESORICS | 2023 | 16 | LNCS, SC | 4 | ||
| 3 | ACSAC | 2022 | 10 | ACM, DC | 5 | ✔ | |
| 4 | DSN | 2023 | 11 | IEEE, DC | * | ||
| 5 | AsiaCCS | 2023 | 12 | ACM, DC | 3 | ✔ | |
| 6 | CHES | 2023 | 40 | LNCS, SC | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 7 | SecureComm | 2023 | 16 | LNCS, SC | * | ||
| 8 | CNS | 2022 | 9 | IEEE, DC | |||
| 9 | DIMVA | 2023 | 20 | LNCS, SC | |||
| 10 | SAC | 2023 | 8 | ACM, DC | 2 | ||
| 11 | ACISP | 2022 | 20 | LNCS, SC | ✔ | ||
| 12 | ICICS | 2023 | 16 | LNCS, SC | 2 | ✔ | |
| 13 | ISC | 2022 | 20 | LNCS, SC | |||
| 14 | SACMAT | 2023 | 12 | ACM, DC | |||
| 15 | IFIP SEC | 2023 | 14 | LNCS, SC | |||
| 16 | WiSec | 2023 | 10 | ACM, DC | 5 | ✔ | ✔ |
| 17 | WG11.9 | 2023 | 25 | LNCS, SC | |||
| 18 | DFRWS | 2023 | 10 | IEEE, DC | * | ||
| 19 | CODASPY | 2023 | 12 | ACM, DC | 2 | ||
| 20 | CT-RSA | 2023 | 24 | LNCS, SC | 6 | ✔ | |
| 21 | HOST | 2023 | 10 | IEEE, DC | * | ||
| 22 | NSPW | 2022 | 15 | ACM, DC | |||
| 23 | IHMMSEC | 2023 | 12 | ACM, DC |
(last update: February 18th, 2023)
Long lists
I am also curating a “longer” list of all venues, accessible at the following page: Long List
History
Want to see how the tables changed over time? Then follow the links below