🚀 MPC Deadlines Hub

Welcome to the MPC Deadlines Hub, your one-stop destination for keeping track of the latest deadlines for top Multi-Party Computation (MPC) conferences, journals, and workshops! 📅✨

🤔 What is MPC?

Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) allows a set of mutually distrusting parties to perform a joint computation over their private inputs while preserving the privacy of their individual inputs. Curious to learn more? Check out this MPC overview! 🔍🔐

🚀 Adding/updating a conference

Want to contribute? Awesome! Here’s how:

• Read the data format description below. Note that the timezone format sign is inverted (e.g., UTC+7 is written as Etc/GMT-7). It's [not a bug][0]. Yeah, we know—it’s weird. If you have a better JavaScript timezone library in mind, hit us up! 😅
• Update _data/conferences.yml. You can do this directly on GitHub or locally after forking the repo.
• Send a pull request. 🎉

💡 Too lazy to create a pull request? No worries! Drop a message on our Telegram Group 📢, and we’ll update the entries for you! 😎🚀

✅ Is my entry in scope?

This page is meant to host academic conferences, journals, workshops, and related event deadlines.

Ask yourself these questions before adding an entry:

• 📝 Is there a "Call For Papers"? A submission link? Formatting guidelines (page limits, style guides, etc.)?
• 🔐 Does it mention 'secure multi-party computation', 'MPC', or 'privacy-preserving computing' in its topics?
• 🧐 Is there a peer-review process? Are there named general/program chairs or a program committee?

If you answered YES to all of the above, congratulations! Your conference/workshop is a great fit! 🎯

🏆 Conference entry record

Example record:

- name: ACM CCS
  description: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  year: 2025
  link: https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2025/
  abdeadline: Jan 02, Apr 07
  deadline:
    - "2025-01-09 23:59"
    - "2025-04-14 23:59"
  rebut: March 06-19, June 09-22
  date: October 13-17
  place: Taipei, Taiwan
  comment: 2 deadlines. Notifications - March 27, June 30.
  tags: [PRACT, APPLIED, CNF, COREAS] 

📌 Notes:

• For an event with a single deadline, make sure to put the deadline in square brackets, like this:

  deadline: ["2025-04-01 23:59"]
  

• Not all fields are mandatory! Just add the relevant ones. 😊

• The events are listed in alphabetical order grouped by the categories. Please make sure to have consistency while updating the entries.

🔍 Field descriptions

Field name	Description
name*	Short conference name (no year)
description	Long name or a brief description
year*	Year the conference is happening
link*	URL to the conference homepage
abdeadline	Registration and/or abstract deadline.
deadline*	Submission deadline(s)
rebut	Rebuttal window
timezone	Timezone in [tz][1] format (Default: UTC-12, [AoE][2])
date	When the conference is happening
place	Conference location
tags	One or more tags as detailed below.

📌 Please try to maintain consistency in the order of the fields when updating an entry.

📌 Special Case of Workshops

Workshops can be a bit special! Here’s what to keep in mind when adding them:

• If the workshop is affiliated with a conference, make sure to add the conference tag, specifying the name of the main conference. For example:

  conference: CCS.
  

  This helps keep things clear and organized! 🔍

🏷️ Tags - Shortlisting Made Easy! 🚀

We use three sets of tags that act as filters to help you quickly find relevant entries.

• First filter: Research Domain (e.g., THEORY, PRACT, APPLIED, etc.)
• Second filter: Publication Type (e.g., CNF, JRN, WK, PS, etc.)
• Third filter: CORE Ranking (e.g., COREAS, COREA, COREB, etc.)

For the full list of tags, check out /_data/filters.yml. 🏷️

🔥 Special Case: EXP Tag

For an event that has been announced but the Call for Papers is not yet available, you can still add an entry! Just make sure to:

• Include the EXP tag.
• Fill in details based on the previous year’s event.
• This will internally set some of the fields to default placeholder values (e.g., comment: "CFP yet to be announced").

🔥 Special Case: EXPCFP Tag

Sometimes, an event is already confirmed and has public details like dates, location, and venue, but the CFP hasn't been published yet. In this case, use the EXPCFP tag.

• This is a more specific version of the EXP tag.
• Use EXPCFP when the event is definitely happening, but the CFP is not yet available.
• As with EXP, base your entry on the most recent available details.

This helps signal to others that the event is expected, even though submission details are still pending. 🔍

🔥 Let's make MPC deadlines easy to track—together! 🚀

🙏 Acknowledgements

Thanks to the amazing sec-deadlines page, which inspired the initial version of this hub. 🙌