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IEEE S&P
Name	IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Abbreviation	IEEE S&P
Discipline	Cryptography, Computer security, Information privacy
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Country	United States (primary)
First	1980
Frequency	Annual

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IEEE S&P The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy is an annual peer-reviewed conference focusing on Cryptography, Computer security and Information privacy. It is a leading venue where researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Cambridge present advances alongside industry participants from Google, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Amazon (company), and Intel. The symposium attracts contributions connected to projects or communities including Tor (anonymity network), OpenSSL, Linux kernel, Signal (software), and PGP.

Overview

IEEE S&P convenes academics, practitioners, and policymakers to publish research on topics spanning Public-key cryptography, Blockchains, Secure multiparty computation, Differential privacy, Homomorphic encryption, Hardware security modules, Side-channel attacks, and Adversarial machine learning. Typical participants include faculty from Princeton University, Yale University, University of Oxford, and ETH Zurich; researchers from labs such as Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research; and contributors from companies like Cisco Systems, Facebook, NVIDIA, and ARM Holdings. Proceedings are cited alongside work appearing in venues such as CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, USENIX Security Symposium, ACM CCS, and NDSS Symposium.

The symposium began in 1980 with foundations influenced by early work at Bell Labs, RAND Corporation, and universities like University of California, Los Angeles and Cornell University. Over decades the program evolved from classical topics tied to Data Encryption Standard debates and RSA (cryptosystem) analyses to modern themes including Internet of Things security, cloud computing threats, and machine learning vulnerabilities. Landmark shifts paralleled events at DEF CON, Black Hat USA, and policy dialogues involving United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. Key historically connected figures and institutions include Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman, Dawn Song, Ross Anderson, and groups from SRI International.

The program committee typically includes senior researchers from Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Washington, University of Michigan, and Cornell University. Call for papers solicits submissions across areas like Network security, Operating systems security, Applied cryptography, and Privacy-enhancing technologies. The symposium features plenary talks by leaders from National Security Agency, European Commission, World Economic Forum, and industry keynote speakers from Amazon Web Services, Palantir Technologies, Dropbox, and Salesforce. Co-located events often include tutorials, workshops affiliated with Usenix, IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research), and panels involving organizations such as OpenAI, Mozilla Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and ACLU.

IEEE S&P has published influential work such as foundational papers on timing attacks and cache side-channel attacks affecting Intel Corporation processors, pivotal analyses of TLS (Transport Layer Security) implementations including OpenSSL vulnerabilities, seminal proposals in differential privacy building on research by scholars associated with Google and Microsoft Research, and influential disclosures related to spectre and meltdown mitigations. Other contributions have impacted standards and deployments, influencing efforts at IETF, ISO/IEC, NIST, and informing legal and policy debates involving European Court of Justice and US Congress witnesses. High-impact authors have come from SRI International, MITRE Corporation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The symposium shapes curricula at institutions such as Stanford University School of Engineering, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Its community includes students, postdocs, and staff from Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, Palantir Technologies, and Dropbox who translate research into products and standards. IEEE S&P influences open-source projects like OpenSSL, Linux kernel, Tor, and GnuPG and informs regulatory discussions at bodies such as European Data Protection Board and Federal Trade Commission. Alumni of the conference serve on editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, and program committees for USENIX, ACM CCS, and NDSS.

The symposium presents best paper awards and recognition often highlighting innovations later honored by organizations such as ACM, IEEE, Royal Society, and national science academies. Recipients have included researchers affiliated with Princeton University, University of California, San Diego, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College London, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Over time, award-winning work at IEEE S&P has led to prizes and fellowships from NSF, DARPA, Royal Society, and European Research Council, and has been cited in influential industry reports by McKinsey & Company, Gartner, and Forrester Research.

Category:Computer security conferences