SoS Literature Survey 2021

Potential Science of Security paper sources for calendar year 2021

To suggest additional sources, please email BSCPC@cps-vo.org.

Conference Dates

Conference/Journal Title and URL

Award papers and notes

2/21/2021 - 2/25/2021

Internet Society Network and Distributed System Security Symposium  2020 (NDSS)

Conference:

  • https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2021/

Program:

  • https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-program/ndss-2021/

Accepted papers list:

  • https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2021/accepted-papers/

Distinguished paper award

Awakening the Web’s Sleeper Agents: Misusing Service Workers for Privacy Leakage

  • https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/awakening-the-webs-sleeper-agents-misusing-service-workers-for-privacy-leakage/

3/27/2021 - 4/1/2021

ETAPS  European Symposium on Theory and Practice of Software

 Proceedings:

  • https://etaps.org/2021/proceedings 

ETAPS  best paper awards are listed at:

  • https://etaps.org/2021/best-papers

5/24/2021 - 5/27/2021

 IEEE Symposium on Securty & Privacy

Conference:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/

Accepted Papers List:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/program-papers.html

Program:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/program.html

Awards:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/awards.html

Proceedings:

  • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9519381/proceeding
 Best Paper awards:

Compositional Security for Reentrant Applications

  • https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ethan/papers/serif.pdf

Hardware-Software Contracts for Secure Speculation

  • https://spectector.github.io/papers/hwsw-contracts.pdf

Best Practical paper award:

The EMV Standard: Break, Fix, Verify

  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08249.pdf

Best Student paper awards:

CrawlPhish: Large-scale Analysis of Client-side Cloaking Techniques in Phishing

  • https://kapravelos.com/publications/crawlphish-sp21.pdf

"They Would do Better if They Worked Together: The Case of Interaction Problems Between 

Password Managers and Websites"

  • https://publications.cispa.saarland/3440/1/conf-oakland-huaman21.pdf

6/21/2021 - 6/24/2021

 IEEE/IFIP Dependable Systems and Networks Conference (DSN)

Program:

  • https://dsn2021.ntu.edu.tw/resource/page/id/schedule.html

Accepted Papers:

  • https://dsn2021.ntu.edu.tw/resource/page/id/83.html

Best paper award winner: 

PID-Piper: Recovering Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/imfsjdt81v9oio9/Pid-Piper-DSN21.pdf?dl=0
6/21/2021 - 6/24/2021 IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium

Program:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/CSF2021/

Accepted Papers:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/CSF2021/accepted.html
 3 Distinguished paper awards:

A Quantale of Information

SSProve: a foundational framework for modular cryptographic proofs in Coq

Verifying Hyperproperties with TLA
7/12/2021 - 7/16/2021 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium

Conference:

  • https://petsymposium.org/2021/

Program:

  • https://petsymposium.org/2021/program.php 
 Caspar Bowden PET Award

Vitaly Feldman. "Does Learning Require Memorization? A Short Tale about a Long Tail". ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2020

  • Note: Published 2020, not eligible for this award
8/11/2021 - 8/13/2021 USENIX Security

Conference:

  • https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21

Program/Proceedings:

  • https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/technical-sessions
 7  Distinguished Paper awards:
8/9/2021 - 8/10/2021

SOUPS (at USENIX Security)]

Program:

  • https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2021/technical-sessions
 IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award

Distinguished Paper Award
8/16/2021 - 8/20/2021 Crypto

Conference:

  • https://crypto.iacr.org/2021/

Program:

  • https://crypto.iacr.org/2021/program.php

Accepted Papers:

  • https://crypto.iacr.org/2021/acceptedpapers.php
 4 papers in Best Paper Awards session

On the Possibility of Basing Cryptography on $\EXP \neq \BPP$

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/535

Linear Cryptanalysis of FF3-1 and FEA

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/815

Efficient Key Recovery for all HFE Signature Variants

  • https://www.iacr.org/cryptodb//data/paper.php?pubkey=31202

Three Halves Make a Whole? Beating the Half-Gates Lower Bound for Garbled Circuits

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/749.pdf
9/6/2021 - 9/10/2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P)

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2021/

Program:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2021/program.html

Accepted Papers:

  • https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2021/accepted.html
 Award papers:

BGPeek-a-Boo: Active BGP-based Traceback for Amplification DDoS Attacks

  • https://publications.cispa.saarland/3372/7/bgpeek-a-boo.pdf

Prognosis Negative: Evaluating Real-Time Behavioral Ransomware Detectors

  • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9581177
10/4/2021 - 10/8/2021 ESORICS (European Symposium on Research In Computer Security)

Conference:

  • https://esorics2021.athene-center.de

Proceedings (1 of 2 Vols):

  • https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88418-5

Proceedings (2 of 2 Vols):

  • https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88428-4
 Best paper award:

MediSC: Towards a Secure and Lightweight Deep Learning as a Medical Diagnostic Service'
10/6/2021 - 10/8/2021 RAID 2021 Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Detection

Program:

  • https://raid2021.org/program/

Accepted Paper List:

  • https://raid2021.org/accepted-papers/

Proceeding:

  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3471621

Best paper award -- inquiring

The Evolution of DNS-based Email Authentication: Measuring Adoption and Finding Flaws

  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3471621.3471842

 

 

 

 

 

 
10/17/2021 - 10/21/2021 Eurocrypt

Conference:

  • https://eurocrypt.iacr.org/2021/

Accepted Paper List:

  • https://eurocrypt.iacr.org/2021/acceptedpapers.php

Program

  • https://eurocrypt.iacr.org/2021/program.php

Best paper awards:

Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge from Sub-exponential DDH

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/514.pdf

On the (in)security of ROS

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/945.pdf

New Representations of the AES Key Schedule

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1253.pdf

Private Information Retrieval with Sublinear Online Time

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1075.pdf 
10/18/2021 - 10/20/2021 IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2021

Accepted Papers:

  • https://secdev.ieee.org/2021/accepted/

Program:

  • https://secdev.ieee.org/2021/program/

Accepted Papers:

  • https://raid2021.org/accepted-papers/
 Awards given, but not for papers
10/26-2021 - 10/28/2021 New Security Paradigms Workshop

Program:

  • https://www.nspw.org/2021/program

Proceedings:

  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3498891
  
11/15/2021 - 11/19/2021 ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (ACM CCS)

Accepted Papers:

  • https://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2021/accepted-papers.html
 Best Paper Awards

XSinator.com: From a Formal Model to the Automatic Evaluation of Cross-Site Leaks in Web Browsers 

  • https://xsinator.com/paper.pdf

One Glitch to Rule Them All: Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization 

  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.04575.pdf

On the Renyi Differential Privacy of the Shuffle Model 

  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.05180v1.pdf

On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP 

  • https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/923.pdf

V-Shuttle: Scalable and Semantics-Aware Hypervisor Virtual Device Fuzzing

  • https://nesa.zju.edu.cn/download/pgn_pdf_V-SHUTTLE.pdf

other awards listed here:

  • https://sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2021/ccs-awards.html
12/6/2021 - 12/10/2021 Annual Computer Security Applications Conf (ACSAC)

 Conference:

  • https://www.acsac.org

Accepted Papers:

  • https://www.acsac.org/2021/program/papers/

Distinguished Paper Awards

Two Souls in an Adversarial Image: Towards Universal Adversarial Example Detection using Multi-view Inconsistency

  • http://cae.ittc.ku.edu/papers/kiani2021acsac.pdf

 

 

 
12/13/2021 - 12/14/2021 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

Conference:

  • http://www.hostsymposium.org/host2021/index2021.php

Program:

  • http://www.hostsymposium.org/host2021/program-html.php
 Apparently no papers or awards in 2021
Somewhat further afield but may have relevant contributions
2/27/2021 - 3/3/2021  IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

Conference Website:

  • https://hpca-conf.org/2021/

Conference Program:

  • https://hpca-conf.org/2021/main-program/
  
4/12/2021 - 4/23/2021  Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS).

Conference Website:

  • https://asplos-conference.org/2021/index.html

Accepted Papers:

  • https://asplos-conference.org/2021/index.html%3Fp=2181.html

Awards:

  • https://asplos-conference.org/2021/index.html%3Fp=2592.html
  
6/14/2021 - 6/19/2021  IEEE/ACM Internationation Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)

Conference Website:

  • https://www.iscaconf.org/isca2021/

Program:

  • https://www.iscaconf.org/isca2021/program/
  
10/18/2021 - 10/22/2021  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)

Conference Website:

  • https://www.microarch.org/micro54/

Conference Program:

  • https://www.microarch.org/micro54/program/

 (4 best paper nominees listed in Session 1)

 
PERIODICALS

 

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Available in IEEE Digital Library: 

http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/tq/index.html

2021 is Volume 18

ACM Transactions on  Privacy and Security (TOPS)

Available in ACM digital library:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J1547

2021 is Volume 24, Issues 1 through  4

ACM Transactions on Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP)

https://dl.acm.org/journal/dtrap

2021 is Volume 2

Journal of Computer Security (IOS Press)

Available at: 

http://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-computer-security/

2021  is Volume 29, issues 1-6

Computers &  Security (Elsevier)

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-security

2021 publication year includes Volumes (= issues)  100-111

IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine

https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/sp/2020/index.html

2021 is Volume 19, Issues 1-6

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS)

https://sciendo.com/issue/POPETS/2021/1

2021 is Volume 2021, Issues 1-4

Cryptography (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI))

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/

2021 is Volume 5, Issues 1-4

Journals a bit farther afield but may have relevant articles:

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/issues?punumber=10206&isnumber=8833568

2021 is Vol. 16, Issues 1-12

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ts/2018/index.html

2021 is Vol. 47, Issues 1-12

ACM Computing Surveys

https://dl.acm.org/pub.cfm?id=J204

2020 is Vol. 53 No.1-6

Journal of the ACM

https://dl.acm.org/pub.cfm?id=J401

2021 is Vol 68 issue 1 - 6

Area editor for crypto and security: Rafi Ostrovsky