Paper Submission

General Information

TCHES requires all articles to be typeset in the new iacrtrans LaTeX class. Please make sure that your submission strictly complies with the predefined format. 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 (see hints on the conversion of lncs articels below). 

The iacrtrans 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 on the GitHub project page.

Timeline

Note that it is mandatory that accepted papers at the IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems journal are presented at the corresponding CHES event.

Upcoming deadlines relating to CHES 2025 are as follows:

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2025, Issue 1
– Submission: 15 July 2024
– Rebuttal: 19-23 August 2024
– Notification: 15 September 2024
– Camera-ready: 14 October 2024

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2025, Issue 2
– Submission: 15 October 2024
– Rebuttal: 18-22 November 2024
– Notification: 15 December 2024
– Camera-ready: 14 January 2024

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2025, Issue 3
– Submission: 15 January 2025
– Rebuttal: 17-21 February 2025
– Notification: 15 March 2025
– Camera-ready: 14 April 2025

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2025, Issue 4
– Submission: 15 April 2025
– Rebuttal: 19-23 May 2025
– Notification: 15 June 2025
– Camera-ready: 14 July 2025

Direct Link to CHES submission site.

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