NDSS: Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of NDSS, Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (CORE rank A*; field: Cybersecurity and privacy), 2024–2026: per year, the institutions, countries and topics, and the most-cited papers. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

NDSS (Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium) is rated A* by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 612 of its papers from 2024–2026 (140 in 2024, 211 in 2025, 261 in 2026).
By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (271), China (268) and Germany (60).
The institutions with the most papers are Tsinghua University (73), Zhejiang University (45) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (33).
Its most-cited paper of these years is “Large Language Model guided Protocol Fuzzing” (2024), with 247 citations.

Papers per year#

NDSS papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)
Year	Papers	With affiliations
2024	140	136
2025	211	209
2026	261	254

Sources#

Where OpenAlex lists the papers
OpenAlex source	Which papers
S4306420590	The conference's proceedings

Who publishes there#

Institutions with the most NDSS papers, 2024–2026
#	Institution	Papers
1	Tsinghua University	73
2	Zhejiang University	45
3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	33
4	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	30
5	Institute of Information Engineering	26
6	Helmholtz Center for Information Security	21
7	Peking University	18
8	Purdue University West Lafayette	16
9	Southeast University	16
10	Georgia Institute of Technology	15

Countries with the most NDSS papers, 2024–2026
#	Country	Papers
1	United States	271
2	China	268
3	Germany	60
4	Hong Kong	37
5	Singapore	36
6	Australia	26
7	Canada	21
8	South Korea	21
9	United Kingdom	20
10	Netherlands	17

Keywords with the most NDSS papers, 2024–2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	large language models	45
2	vulnerability detection	26
3	trusted execution environments	23
4	side-channel attacks	21
5	backdoor attacks	18
6	adversarial robustness	14
7	black-box attacks	13
8	denial-of-service attacks	13
9	fuzzing	13
10	privacy leakage	13

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited NDSS papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)
#	Citations	Title	Published	Authors
1	247	Large Language Model guided Protocol Fuzzing	2024-01-01	Ruijie Meng, Мартин Мирчев, Marcel Böhme et al.
2	125	MASTERKEY: Automated Jailbreaking of Large Language Model Chatbots	2024-01-01	Gelei Deng, Yi Liu, Yuekang Li et al.
3	71	PropertyGPT: LLM-driven Formal Verification of Smart Contracts through Retrieval-Augmented Property Generation	2025-01-01	Ye Liu, Yue Xue, Daoyuan Wu et al.
4	57	BumbleBee: Secure Two-party Inference Framework for Large Transformers	2025-01-01	Wen-jie Lu, Zhicong Huang, Zhen Gu et al.
5	57	Low-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic	2024-01-01	Yuqi Qing, Qilei Yin, Xinhao Deng et al.
6	53	DeGPT: Optimizing Decompiler Output with LLM	2024-01-01	Peiwei Hu, Ruigang Liang, Kai Chen
7	50	FreqFed: A Frequency Analysis-Based Approach for Mitigating Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning	2024-01-01	Hossein Fereidooni, Alessandro Pegoraro, Phillip Rieger et al.
8	47	Secure Transformer Inference Made Non-interactive	2025-01-01	Jiawen Zhang, Xinpeng Yang, Lipeng He et al.
9	46	NODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation	2024-01-01	Shaofei Li, Feng Dong, Xusheng Xiao et al.
10	40	Detecting Voice Cloning Attacks via Timbre Watermarking	2024-01-01	Chang Liu, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang et al.

Conferences in the same field#

CCS · SP · CRYPTO · Eurocrypt · PETS · AsiaCCS · CHES · ESORICS · ASIACRYPT · EuroS&P · ACSAC · CSF · RAID · FC

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). NDSS: Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ndss

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