SSR2025: Security Standards Research Conference 2025 University of Passau Passau, Germany, December 4-5, 2025

In the past two decades, cybersecurity standards have advanced significantly and many of them have become very widely used. Despite their widespread use, it is essential to continually revise existing standards and develop new standards to cover emerging domains, such as post-quantum cryptography, fully homomorphic encryption, 6G and artificial intelligence. The purpose of the 2025 SSR conference is to discuss the numerous research challenges arising from studies of existing standards, the development of revisions to these standards, and the exploration of entirely new areas of standardization. Many security standards bodies are only beginning to address the issue of transparency, ensuring that the process of selecting security techniques for standardization is as scientific and unbiased as possible. This conference aims to cover the entire range of security standardisation research. Topics include, but are not limited to, developments in cryptographic techniques, security management, security evaluation criteria, security policy, network security, privacy and identity management, as well as technologies such as smart cards and RFID tags, biometrics, and security modules. It also covers industry-specific security standards, including those created by the payments, telecommunications, and computing sectors for systems like payment protocols, mobile telephony, and trusted computing. Through in-depth research presentations and open discussions, the conference aims to advance the field of security standardization, fostering a collaborative environment for both revising existing standards and developing new ones to address the evolving challenges in cybersecurity.

Submission Guidelines

Papers offering research contributions to the area of security standardisation are solicited for submission to the SSR 2024 conference.

SSR also invites Systematisation of Knowledge (SoK) papers relating to security standardisation, which integrate experience and previous research, drawing new comprehensive conclusions. SoK papers should evaluate, systematise, and contextualise existing knowledge. They should provide a new viewpoint, offer a comprehensive taxonomy, or cast doubt on long-held beliefs, based on compelling evidence. We also welcome SoK papers that document existing standardisation practices and analyse their weaknesses and strengths.

We also encourage submission of vision papers relating to security standardisation. The vision track is intended to report on work in progress or concrete ideas for work that has yet to begin. The focus in the vision track is to spark discussion with the goal to provide the authors helpful feedback, pointers to potentially related investigations, and new ideas to explore. Suitable submissions to the vision track include traditional work-in-progress pieces such as preliminary results of pre-studies, but also research proposals and position papers outlining future research.

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, anonymous and not submitted to journals or other conferences/workshops that have proceedings. Submissions must be written in English and should be at most 23 pages in the Springer LCNS format including references, but not counting appendices. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Papers not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

Authors submitting a systematisation of knowledge paper should have a title starting with “SoK: ”. This is to ensure that the committee is made aware that the paper is an SoK paper, and so will be reviewed with different criteria. Vision papers should be marked as such upon submission.

Accepted papers will be published via Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of accepted papers must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference.

Publication

SSR2025 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNCS series.

Venue

The Security Standardisation Research (SSR) Conference 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the SSR conference series, launched in 2014. SSR 2025 will be hosted in the beautiful location of Passau, Germany, and will take place December 4–5, 2025.