The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It 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.

The program includes papers, panels, and a poster session. Topics of interest include access control, information flow, covert channels, cryptographic protocols, database security, language-based security, authorization and trust, verification techniques, integrity and availability models, and broad discussions concerning the role of formal methods in computer security and the nature of foundational research in this area.

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Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
Spring cycle paper submission May 8, 2020
Spring cycle author notification July 10, 2020
Spring cycle reviews June 21, 2020
Fall cycle paper submission October 2, 2020
Fall cycle author notification December 7, 2020
Fall cycle reviews November 15, 2020
Winter cycle paper submission Early February, 2021
Winter cycle author notification Mid April, 2021
Winter cycle reviews Late March, 2021
Winter cycle camera ready Early May, 2021
CSF Symposium June 21-25, 2021