FCS 2025

Background, aim and scope

Computer security is an established field of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, there has been sustained interest in the formal foundations of methods used in computer security. The goals of the 2025 Foundations of Computer Security workshop (FCS 2025) are twofold. First, we aim to provide a forum for the discussion of continued research in this area. Second, we wish to support young researchers in developing long-term connections in the research community and provide them with access to perspectives from researchers from other institutions.

To support the first goal, FCS 2025 welcomes papers on all topics related to the formal underpinnings of security and privacy, and their applications. FCS 2025 is interested in new theoretical results, in exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories, and in the development of security/privacy tools using formal techniques. Demonstrations of tools based on formal techniques are welcome, as long as the demonstrations can be carried out on a standard digital projector (i.e., without any specialized equipment). We solicit the submission of both mature work and work in progress.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

To support the second goal, FCS 2025 will follow the lead of larger conferences and our own past success and provide attendees with mentoring opportunities alongside the research track. In particular, there will be multiple mentoring sessions throughout the day so junior researchers can meet and interact with their senior counterparts.

Format

FCS 2025 will be an in-person event, but we reserve the possibility to broadcast and preset talks via zoom should the need arise.

Program

Invited Speaker

We are happy to announce that the FCS keynote this year will be delivered by Deian Stefan!

Important Dates

Submission

FCS 2025 welcomes two kinds of submissions:

• full papers (at most 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices)
• short papers (at most 2 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices)

FCS 2025 will employ a light form of double-blind reviewing. Submitted papers must (a) omit any reference to the authors' names or the names of their institutions, and (b) reference the authors' own related work in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). The author information will be revealed to the reviewers only after papers have been accepted. If you have questions, please see the CSF 2018 FAQ page. When in doubt, contact the program chairs.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee listed below. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. Short papers will receive the same rigorous reviews as full papers, but might receive a shorter talk slot at the workshop, depending on the number of accepted submissions.

Papers may be formatted using a two-column proceedings style accepted by IEEE, ACM, or USENIX conferences. The first page should include the paper's title, an abstract, and a list of keywords. Committee members are not required to read appendices, so papers must be intelligible without them. Papers not adhering to the page limits may be rejected without consideration of their merits.

Paper submissions will be done through EasyChair in the PDF format. The submission website is here.

Informal Proceedings

The workshop has no published proceedings. Presenting a paper at the workshop should not preclude submission to or publication in other venues (before, after, or concurrently with FCS 2025). Papers presented at the workshop will be made available to workshop participants, but this does not constitute an official proceedings.

Program Committee

Program Chairs

• Anitha Gollamudi (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
• Marco Vassena (Utrecht University)

Committee

• Joshua Gancher (Northeastern University)
• David Pichardie (Meta)
• Rob Sison (UNSW)
• Samuel Lasser (Draper Technologies)
• Andrew Hirsch (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
• McKenna McCall (CMU)
• Matteo Busi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
• Matthew Kolosick (UCSD)
• Michael Sammler (ISTA)
• Klaus v. Gleissenthall (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Registration

Registration is done through the main CSF Website. When you register, you will need to indicate that you wish to attend the workshop.