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Use when deciding whether a security or privacy project belongs at IEEE S&P (Oakland), including the threat-model test, SoK fit, routing among USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, PETS, and CRYPTO, and whether the one-year resubmission embargo or the 40% overlap rule constrains the plan.

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# IEEE S&P Topic Selection

Use this before any writing starts: is the project an Oakland paper, and if so,
as a research paper or as an SoK? S&P has been the field's flagship since 1980
(first held at the Claremont Resort in the Oakland hills — hence the nickname),
and its reviewer pool reads for adversarial rigor above topical fashion.

## The two-question fit test

1. **Is there a real adversary?** State who attacks, with what access, and what
   they win. If the paper has no defensible threat model — or the "attack" needs
   an adversary who could already do worse things more cheaply — Oakland
   reviewers will say so in round one. Papers where security is a motivating
   anecdote rather than the analyzed object usually belong at a systems, ML, or
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