| Abstrakt | Following the tradition of the European Symposium European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), this special issue includes selected papers from the 2021 edition of ESORICS. This edition was held (virtually) in Darmstadt (Germany) on October 4–8, 2021.
ESORICS 2021 introduced for the first time in the ESORICS series two review cycles: a winter cycle and a spring cycle. Multiple submission cycles are today common in top conferences; they are not only more convenient for the authors but also allow revision and resubmission of papers. In response to the call for papers, 351 papers were submitted to ESORICS 2021. The papers were peer reviewed and discussed based on their novelty, quality, and contribution by the members of the Program Committee. Based on the reviews and discussions 71 high quality papers were selected for presentation at the conference. As a result, ESORICS had an interesting program covering timely and interesting security and privacy topics in theory, systems, networks, and applications.
Because of the high quality of the papers accepted for presentation at ESORICS 2021, selecting the papers to invite for the special issue was challenging. To select the papers, we analyzed the top ranked papers and also asked for inputs by the PC members, and finally identified and invited six papers. Out of those six papers, one was not submitted owning to some resource issues by the authors. The remaining five papers went through the customary review cycles and were all accepted. These papers cover a broad set of topics, ranging from zero-knowledge proof protocols and privacy-preserving neural network inferences to privacy-preserving searching techniques, malware sandbox evasion and password strength estimation. Overall the selected papers address timely and crucial topics and provide novel solutions. |
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