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 2024 are as follows:

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2024, Issue 1
Submission: 15 July 2023
– Rebuttal: 22-26 August 2023
– Notification: 15 September 2023
– Camera-ready: 14 October 2023

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2024, Issue 2
Submission: 15 October 2023
– Rebuttal: 21-25 November 2023
– Notification: 15 December 2023
– Camera-ready: 14 January 2024

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2024, Issue 3
Submission: 15 January 2024
– Rebuttal: 20-24 February 2024
– Notification: 15 March 2024
– Camera-ready: 14 April 2024

• IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), Volume 2024, Issue 4
Submission: 15 April 2024
– Rebuttal: 22-26 May 2024
– Notification: 15 June 2024
– Camera-ready: 14 July 2024

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