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Use when deciding whether a security project belongs at NDSS — the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — or should route to IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, PETS, IMC, or ACSAC, applying NDSS's networked-adversary and deployment-realism tests before any writing begins.

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# NDSS Topic Selection

NDSS is the Internet Society's slice of the security big four, and its center of gravity is
literal: security of things that are *networked or distributed* — protocols, the web, DNS
and routing, cloud and edge infrastructure, IoT fleets, and the measurement of all of the
above under attack. Work can be excellent and still be mis-routed here. Run these tests
before a word is drafted; the cheapest rejection is the one you never submit into.

## Three fit tests

1. **The wire test.** Describe the contribution without mentioning a network, a protocol, a
   distributed deployment, or Internet-scale phenomena. If the description survives intact,
   the paper's heart is somewhere else — a crypto venue, a software-engineering venue, an ML
   venue — and NDSS reviewers will sense it.
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