USENIX Security Camera-Ready

Acceptance at USENIX Security starts a short, condition-laden runway: in the '26 cycles, final papers were due about six weeks after notification (Cycle 1: notified Dec 4, 2025, finals Jan 15, 2026; Cycle 2: notified May 14, 2026, finals Jun 11, 2026), and during that same window the mandatory artifact-availability check had to pass. The camera-ready is therefore not a formatting chore — part of the acceptance itself is still pending.

What is actually conditional

Under the '26 Open Science policy, acceptance is conditional on the artifact evaluation committee verifying, before finals are due, that the artifacts named in the paper's Open Science appendix are genuinely available — or that the appendix carries a justified explanation for withholding them. Plan the runway backwards from that: