CSF Awarded Papers

Since 2018, CSF recognizes a subset (between 5% and 20%) of the accepted papers as Distinguished Papers, which are papers that the Program Committee thinks should be read broadly by the CSF community and beyond. The Distinguished Papers are listed by year below.

CSF 2024

Deciding branching hyperproperties for real time systems
Nabarun Deka, Minjian Zhang, Rohit Chadha, Mahesh Viswanathan
Explaining epsilon in local differential privacy through the lens of quantitative information flow
Natasha Fernandes, Annabelle McIver, Parastoo Sadeghi

CSF 2023

Indistinguishability Beyond Diff-Equivalence in ProVerif
Vincent Cheval and Itsaka Rakotonirina
Smart Contract Synthesis Modulo Hyperproperties
Norine Coenen, Bernd Finkbeiner, Jana Hofmann, and Julia Tillman

CSF 2022

Cracking the Stateful Nut -- Computational Proofs of Stateful Security Protocols using the Squirrel Proof Assistant
David Baelde, Stephanie Delaune, Adrien Koutsos, and Solène Moreau
Applying consensus and replication securely with FLAQR
Priyanka Mondal, Maximilian Algehed, and Owen Arden

CSF 2021

A Quantale of Information
Sebastian Hunt and David Sands
SSProve: A Foundational Framework for Modular Cryptographic Proofs in Coq
Carmine Abate, Philipp G. Haselwarter, Exequiel Rivas, Antoine Van Muylder, Théo Winterhalter, Catalin Hritcu, Kenji Maillard, and Bas Spitters
Verifying Hyperproperties with TLA
Leslie Lamport and Fred B. Schneider

CSF 2020

A Method for Proving Unlinkability of Stateful Protocols
David Baelde, Stéphanie Delaune, and Solène Moreau
Fifty Shades of Ballot Privacy: Privacy against a Malicious Board
Véronique Cortier, Joseph Lallemand, and Bogdan Warinschi
Transparent IFC Enforcement: Possibility and (In)Efficiency Results
Maximilian Algehed and Cormac Flanagan

CSF 2019

Journey Beyond Full Abstraction: Exploring Robust Property Preservation for Secure Compilation
Carmine Abate, Roberto Blanco, Deepak Garg, Catalin Hritcu, Marco Patrignani, and Jérémy Thibault
Prime, Order Please! Revisiting Small Subgroup and Invalid Curve Attacks on Protocols using Diffie-Hellman
Cas Cremers and Dennis Jackson
Automated Verification of Accountability in Security Protocols
Robert Künnemann, Ilkan Esiyok, and Michael Backes

CSF 2018

Secure compilation of side-channel countermeasures: the case of cryptographic “constant-time”
Gilles Barthe, Benjamin Grégoire, and Vincent Laporte
Types for Information Flow Control: Labeling Granularity and Semantic Models
Vineet Rajani and Deepak Garg
Privacy Risk in Machine Learning: Analyzing the Connection to Overfitting
Samuel Yeom, Irene Giacomelli, Matt Fredrikson, and Somesh Jha

In 2023, CSF has introduced Test-of-Time Awards to celebrate CSF papers with enduring significance and outstanding impact. The awarded papers must be published at least 10 years prior to being awarded. The papers that have recieved Test-of-Time Awards are listed by year below.

CSF 2024

Measuring Information Leakage Using Generalized Gain Functions
Mário S. Alvim, Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Catuscia Palamidessi, and Geoffrey Smith
Published in CSF 2012
Secure Information Flow by Self-Composition
Gilles Barthe, Pedro R. D'Argenio, and Tamara Rezk
Published in CSFW 2004
Authenticity by Typing for Security Protocols
Andrew D. Gordon and Alan Jeffrey
Published in CSFW 2001
A Hierarchy of Authentication Specifications.
Gavin Lowe
Published in CSFW 1997

CSF 2023

An Efficient Cryptographic Protocol Verifier Based on Prolog Rules
Bruno Blanchet
Published in CSFW 2001
Hyperproperties
Michael R. Clarkson and Fred B. Schneider
Published in CSF 2008
A formal framework and evaluation method for network denial of service
Catherine Meadows
Published in CSFW 1999

IEEE CSF Distinguished and Test-of-Time Paper Awards

Distinguished Papers

Papers awarded Test-of-Time Awards