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[maxzinkus]

The SEC, PRIV, and CRYPTO tags are a great idea and should be expanded upon. Can someone add a few more topic areas and require that conferences be tagged (or auto-tag them if previous years exist and are tagged) upon submission? Because filtering for the conferences relevant to me would complete this website IMO.

Tag ideas:

HARDWARE
SOFTWARE
THEORY
APPLIED
TOP-TIER # tier 1s are widely agreed upon, although probably best NOT to support any other TIER tags due to squabbling

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[clementfung]

Thanks for your suggestion!

I am happy to support this and it doesn't seem like it would be very difficult. One thought: maybe I am just unaware of these types of conferences, but to me it seems like most security conferences are pretty broad these days, and are happy to accept a broad range of work (most Tier 1s and Tier 2/3s accept work in Hardware, Software, Theory, Applied, etc.)

So my main worry is that deciding what conferences should/shouldn't receive certain tags might be too subjective.

[maxzinkus]

Definitely a fair point. Perhaps though the tags could highlight the main focus of the conference, even if they tend to accept a variety of papers?

e.g. TCHES -> Hardware,
CCS -> SOFTWARE, APPLIED, TOP-TIER,
(Apologies if TCHES is top, I’m not in hardware)
Even though e.g. CCS accepts papers from the rest of those categories.

Would that be too up to debate to be implementable?

Thanks again!