[fc-announce] Final Call for Papers: Financial Cryptography 2025 (extended submission deadline: 11 October 2024)

[FC25 Program Chairs]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2025
Twenty-Ninth International Conference
14–18 April 2025
Hotel Shigira Mirage, Miyakojima, Japan

https://fc25.ifca.ai/

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international
forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and
debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on
commercial contexts.  The conference covers all aspects of securing
transactions and systems.  Original works focusing on both fundamental
and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce
security are solicited.  Submissions need not be exclusively concerned
with cryptography.  Systems security and interdisciplinary works are
particularly encouraged.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission                    11 October 2024
Paper notification                   6 December 2024
Final pre-proceedings papers        14 February 2025

Conference                          14-18 April 2025

All submissions are accepted until 23:59, AoE UTC-12.

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CONTACT

fc25chair at ifca.ai

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TOPICS

Access control, authorization and trust management
Anonymity and privacy enhancing technologies
Applied cryptography
Attacks, attack techniques, and attack case studies
Auctions and incentive design
Authentication, identity management and biometrics
Behavioral aspects of security and privacy
Blockchain applications
Blockchain protocols, proof-of-work, -stake, -burn
Censorship circumvention and resistance
Central bank digital currency (CBDC)
Certification and audits
Cloud computing and data outsourcing security
Cryptographic protocols
Data security and privacy
Decentralized finance (DeFi)
Digital cash and payment systems
Digital rights management
Distributed consensus protocols
Economic and monetary aspects of cryptocurrencies
Economics of security and privacy
Electronic crime and underground markets
Electronic payments and ticketing systems
Empirical studies, real-world measurements and metrics
Forensics, monitoring and transaction graph analysis
Fraud detection and management
Game theory for security, privacy, and blockchain
Language-based security and formal verification
Legal and regulatory issues of blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and 
electronic payments
Machine learning and AI security
Malware and software security
Mobile payments
Network and distributed system security
Phishing and social engineering
Scalability and interoperability of cryptocurrencies
Security of banking, financial services, and electronic commerce
Security of peer-to-peer networks
Smart contracts and financial instruments
Smartcards, secure tokens, and secure hardware
Surveillance and tracking
System security
Trusted execution environments (TEE), their security and applications
Usability and security
Web security
Zero-knowledge proofs

REMEMBER! THE "CRYPTO" IN FINANCIAL CRYPTOGRAPHY COVERS MORE THAN JUST
YOUR DIGITAL CASH--IT'S ALSO THE SECRET SAUCE BEHIND KEEPING YOUR
SPY-LEVEL MESSAGES SAFE!

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SUBMISSION

Contributions are sought in the following categories:

- Research papers:
   regular papers (15 pages + references and appendices),
   short papers (8 pages + references; no appendices), and
   systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers (20 pages + references and
     appendices)
- Workshop proposals (2 pages)
- Tutorial proposals (2 pages)

Research paper submissions must be uploaded through the conference
submission website: https://crypto.unibe.ch/fc25/

The submission deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals has passed
but late submissions might be considered on a rolling basis, as space
allows.  See the conference website at https://fc25.ifca.ai/cfp.html
for details.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

For each accepted paper the conference requires at least one
registration at the general or academic rate, and paper authors must
sign the IFCA copyright form when submitting the final version.
Alternatively, individual papers can be published as fully open
access--the publisher charges authors a fee for this.

https://ifca.ai/documents/copyright.html

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FORMAT

Papers must be formatted in standard LNCS format (templates) and
submitted as PDF files.  Submissions in other formats will be
rejected.  All papers must be submitted electronically according to
the instructions and forms found here and at the submission site.

<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>

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ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION

Regular and short research paper submissions as well as SoKs must be
anonymized with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or
obvious references.  Failure to properly anonymize submitted papers is
grounds for a desk rejection without review.  It is acceptable (but by
no means required) for submitted papers to be published online in
non-anonymous form (e.g., on authors' websites or archives like the
Cryptology ePrint Archive or arXiv.org).  Program committee members
will be instructed not to actively seek to de-anonymize papers.

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ORIGINAL SUBMISSIONS

Authors may submit only work that does not substantially overlap with
work that is currently submitted or has been accepted for publication
to any other peer-reviewed conference/workshop with proceedings or a
journal.  We consider double submission serious research fraud and
will treat it as such.  Note that it is acceptable for papers to
appear in non-peer-reviewed formats (for example, as technical reports
or in online archives such as ePrint).  In case of doubt contact the
program chairs for any clarifications.

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ETHICS AND ETIQUETTE

Authors are required to read and follow this information on ethics and
etiquette: https://fc25.ifca.ai/ethics.html

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Authors must report in the submission site any conflicts with program
committee members.  A conflict exists if an author has the same
affiliation as a committee member, has ever acted as their PhD
supervisor or been supervised by them, has a close personal
relationship with them, or if they have been co-authors on a paper
within the past two years.  PC chairs are not allowed to submit papers
where they appear as (co-)authors.

PC members will not be able to review, read the reviews of, or
participate in discussions of papers they are conflicted with.  The
review process for papers conflicted with both PC chairs will be
managed by another PC member designated as the "conflict chair".

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Regular Research Papers

Research papers should describe novel, previously unpublished
scientific contributions to the field, and they will be subject to
rigorous peer review.  Accepted submissions will be included in the
conference proceedings to be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.  Submissions are limited to
15 pages in standard LNCS format excluding references and appendices.
A total page restriction may apply for the printed proceedings
version.  Committee members are not required to read the appendices,
so the full papers should be intelligible without them.

Short Papers

Short papers are also subject to peer review; however, the intention
is to encourage authors to introduce work in progress, novel
applications, and corporate/industrial experiences.  Short papers will
be evaluated with a focus on novelty and potential for sparking
participants' interest and future research avenues.  Short paper
submissions are limited to 8 pages in standard LNCS format, excluding
references.  The title for short papers must begin with the text
"Short Paper:".  Accepted submissions will be included in the
conference proceedings.  The authors of some submissions not accepted
as regular research papers may be offered the option of acceptance as
a short paper.

Systematization of Knowledge Papers

We also solicit Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers.  To be
suitable for publication, SoK articles must provide an added value
beyond a literature review, such as novel insights, identification of
research gaps, or challenges to commonly held assumptions.  SoK paper
submissions are limited to 20 pages in standard LNCS format excluding
references and appendices.  Accepted submissions will be included in
the conference proceedings.  A total page restriction may apply for
the printed proceedings version.  Committee members are not required
to read the appendices, so the full papers should be intelligible
without them.  The paper title for systematization of knowledge papers
must begin with the text "SoK:".

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RUMP SESSION

The conference will also include the popular "rump session" held on
one of the evenings in an informal, social atmosphere.  The rump
session is a program of short (5 minutes), informal presentations on
works in progress, off-the-cuff ideas, and any other matters pertinent
to the conference.  Any conference attendee is welcome to submit a
presentation to the Rump Session Chair (to be announced at the
conference).  This submission should consist of a talk title, the name
of the presenter, and, if desired, a very brief abstract.  Submissions
may be sent via e-mail or submitted in person in the morning on the
day of the session.

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PROGRAM CHAIRS

Christina Garman, Purdue University
Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute & VISA Research

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hamza Abusalah, IMDEA Software Institute
Ghada Almashaqbeh, University of Connecticut
Orestis Alpos, Common Prefix
Jayamine Alupotha, University of Bern
Ignacio Amores Sesar, University of Bern
Lukas Aumayr, Common Prefix
Zeta Avarikioti, TU Wien & Common Prefix
Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari
Soumya Basu, Nuveaux Trading
Don Beaver, Fierce Logic
Adithya Bhat, Visa Research
Alexander R. Block, University of Illinois Chicago
Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck
Joseph Bonneau, NYU & a16z crypto
Stefanos Chaliasos, Imperial College London
Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Visa Research
James Hsin-yu Chiang, Aarhus University
Hao Chung, Carnegie Mellon University
Michele Ciampi, The University of Edinburgh
Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
Bernardo David, IT University of Copenhagen & Common Prefix
Rafael Dowsley, Monash University
Sisi Duan, Tsinghua University
Yue Duan, Singapore Management University
Muhammed F. Esgin, Monash University
Aleksander Essex, Western University
Ittay Eyal, Technion
Hanwen Feng, University of Sydney
Matheus Xavier Ferreira, University of Virginia
Arthur Gervais, University College London
Noemi Glaeser, University of Maryland & MPI-SP
Tiantian Gong, Purdue University
Yue Guo, JP Morgan AI Research
Suyash Gupta, University of Oregon
Lucjan Hanzlik, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub
Ningyu He, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Lioba Heimbach, ETH Zurich
Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University / Karlstad University
Yan Ji, Chainlink Labs
Xiangkun Jia, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yanxue Jia, Purdue University
Chenglu Jin, CWI Amsterdam
Tushar Jois, City College of New York
Ari Juels, Cornell Tech
Ghassan Karame, Ruhr-University Bochum
Harish Karthikeyan, JP Morgan AI Research
Mahimna Kelkar, Cornell University
Lucianna Kiffer, IMDEA Networks
Jason Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lefteris Kokoris Kogias, Mysten Labs
Yashvanth Kondi, Silence Laboratories (Deel)
Kari Kostiainen, ETH Zurich
Mario Larangeira, Tokyo Institute of Technology / IOG
Duc V. Le, Visa Research
Eysa Lee, Brown University
Stefanos Leonardos, King's College London
Jacob Leshno, University of Chicago
Jiasun Li, George Mason University
Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos, Imperial College London & Common 
Prefix
Jing Liu, MPI-SP & UC Irvine
Xiangyu Liu, Purdue University and Georgia Institute of Technology
Zeyan Liu, University of Louisville
Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts & 
Web3 Foundation
Donghang Lu, TikTok
Yuan Lu, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences
Varun Madathil, Yale University
Akaki Mamageishvili, Offchain Labs
Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Supra Research
Elisaweta Masserova, CMU
Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Virginia Tech/Georgetown University
Roman Matzutt, Fraunhofer FIT
Patrick McCorry, Arbitrum Foundation
Kelsey Melissaris, Aarhus University
Johnnatan Messias,
Jason Milionis, Columbia University
Pratyush Mishra, University of Pennsylvania
Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia University
Malte Möser, Chainalysis
Neha Narula, MIT
Kenneth Emeka Odoh,
Georgios Palaiokrassas, Yale University
Georgios Panagiotakos, IOG
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, HKUST
Krzysztof Pietrzak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
Kaihua Qin, Yale University
Alfredo Rial, Nym Technologies
Pierre-Louis Roman,
Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University & a16z crypto
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary
Giulia Scaffino, TU Wien & Common Prefix
Nibesh Shrestha, Supra Research
Pratik Soni, University of Utah
Alberto Sonnino, Mysten Labs & University College London
Alexander Spiegelman, Aptos Labs
Srivatsan Sridhar, Stanford University
Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, Chainlink Labs
Erkan Tairi, ENS Paris
Wenpin Tang, Columbia University
Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan, University of Sydney
Christof Ferreira Torres, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Daniel Tschudi, Concordium
Taro Tsuchiya, Carnegie Mellon University
Marie Vasek, UCL
Friedhelm Victor, TRM Labs
Yann Vonlanthen, ETH Zurich
Anh V. Vu, University of Cambridge
Jun Wan, Five Rings LLC
Ding Wang, Nankai University
Haoyu Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Kanye Ye Wang, University of Macau
Qin Wang, CSIRO Data61
Shouqiao Wang, Columbia University
Xuechao Wang, HKUST(GZ)
Zhipeng Wang, Imperial College London
Ke Wu, University of Michigan
Zhuolun Xiang, Aptos Labs
Guowen Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jiahua Xu, University College London
Yingjie Xue, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
(Guangzhou)
Aviv Yaish, Yale University
Zheng Yang, Southwest University
Mengqian Zhang, Yale University
Hong-Sheng Zhou, Virginia Commonwealth University
Liyi Zhou, University of Sydney
Yajin Zhou, Zhejiang University & BlockSec