USENIX Security 2026

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• Starter files
• main.tex890 B

  \documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}
  
  % hyperref MUST load before usenix.sty — usenix.sty pulls in breakurl, which
  % errors out if hyperref isn't already present.
  \usepackage{hyperref}
  
  
  % USENIX ships a single style file `usenix.sty`; older templates referenced
  % `usenix2019_v3` but the current bundle only defines `usenix`.
  \usepackage{usenix}
  
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{graphicx}
  \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
  \usepackage{booktabs}
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \title{\Large \bf Your Paper Title Here}
  
  \author{
  {\rm Anonymous Authors}\\
  Anonymous Institution
  }
  
  \maketitle
  
  \subsection*{Abstract}
  Your abstract here.
  
  \section{Introduction}
  
  \section{Background}
  
  \section{Threat Model}
  
  \section{Design}
  
  \section{Implementation}
  
  \section{Evaluation}
  
  \section{Related Work}
  
  \section{Conclusion}
  
  \bibliographystyle{plain}
  \bibliography{references}
  
  \end{document}
  

• Libraries and docs
• references.bib199 B

  @inproceedings{example2024,
    title     = {An example reference},
    author    = {Doe, Jane and Smith, John},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium},
    year      = {2024}
  }
  

• usenix.sty3.7 KBVendored from www.usenix.org on 2026-05-26.

  % usenix.sty - to be used with latex2e for USENIX.
  % To use this style file, look at the template usenix2019_v3.1.tex
  %
  % $Id: usenix.sty,v 1.2 2005/02/16 22:30:47 maniatis Exp $
  %
  % The following definitions are modifications of standard article.sty
  % definitions, arranged to do a better job of matching the USENIX
  % guidelines.
  % It will automatically select two-column mode and the Times-Roman
  % font.
  %
  % 2018-12-19 [for ATC'19]: add packages to help embed all fonts in
  %   pdf; to improve appearance (hopefully); to make refs and citations
  %   clickable in pdf
  %
  % 2020-09-21 file updated to comment out flushend and make it optional
  
  %
  % USENIX papers are two-column.
  % Times-Roman font is nice if you can get it (requires NFSS,
  % which is in latex2e.
  
  \if@twocolumn\else\input twocolumn.sty\fi
  \usepackage{mathptmx}  % times roman, including math (where possible)
  
  % hopefully embeds all fonts in pdf
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage{pslatex}
  
  % appearance
  % microtype removed: xetex (tectonic) does not support kerning/spacing features.
  
  % Uncomment the following line if you want the columns of the last page 
  % equal in size. But note that doing so may cause issues with some 
  % document-generating tools.
  % \usepackage{flushend}
  
  % refs and bib
  \usepackage{cite}               % order multiple entries in \cite{...}
  % breakurl removed: pdftex-only (PostScript). Long URLs in refs may not break.
  \usepackage{url}                % allow \url in bibtex for clickable links
  \usepackage{xcolor}             % color definitions, to be use for...
  \usepackage[]{hyperref}         % ...clickable refs within pdf...
  \hypersetup{                    % ...like so
    colorlinks,
    linkcolor={green!80!black},
    citecolor={red!70!black},
    urlcolor={blue!70!black}
  }
  
  %
  % USENIX wants margins of: 0.75" sides, 1" bottom, and 1" top.
  % 0.33" gutter between columns.
  % Gives active areas of 7" x 9"
  %
  \setlength{\textheight}{9.0in}
  \setlength{\columnsep}{0.33in}
  \setlength{\textwidth}{7.00in}
  
  \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}
  
  \setlength{\headheight}{0.0in}
  
  \setlength{\headsep}{0.0in}
  
  \addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.25in}
  \addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-0.25in}
  
  % USENIX wants no page numbers for camera-ready papers, so that they can
  % number them themselves.  But submitted papers should have page numbers
  % for the reviewers' convenience.
  % 
  %
  % \pagestyle{empty}
  
  %
  % USENIX titles are in 14-point bold type, with no date, and with no
  % change in the empty page headers.  The whole author section is 12 point
  % italic--- you must use {\rm } around the actual author names to get
  % them in roman.
  %
  \def\maketitle{\par
   \begingroup
     \renewcommand\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}%
     \def\@makefnmark{\hbox to\z@{$\m@th^{\@thefnmark}$\hss}}%
      \long\def\@makefntext##1{\parindent 1em\noindent
              \hbox to1.8em{\hss$\m@th^{\@thefnmark}$}##1}%
     \if@twocolumn
       \twocolumn[\@maketitle]%
       \else \newpage
       \global\@topnum\z@
       \@maketitle \fi\@thanks
   \endgroup
   \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
   \let\maketitle\relax
   \let\@maketitle\relax
   \gdef\@thanks{}\gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}\let\thanks\relax}
  
  \def\@maketitle{\newpage
   \vbox to 2.5in{
   \vspace*{\fill}
   \vskip 2em
   \begin{center}%
    {\Large\bf \@title \par}%
    \vskip 0.375in minus 0.300in
    {\large\it
     \lineskip .5em
     \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\@author
     \end{tabular}\par}%
   \end{center}%
   \par
   \vspace*{\fill}
  % \vskip 1.5em
   }
  }
  
  %
  % The abstract is preceded by a 12-pt bold centered heading
  \def\abstract{\begin{center}%
  {\large\bf \abstractname\vspace{-.5em}\vspace{\z@}}%
  \end{center}}
  \def\endabstract{}
  
  %
  % Main section titles are 12-pt bold.  Others can be same or smaller.
  %
  \def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}{-3.5ex plus-1ex minus
      -.2ex}{2.3ex plus.2ex}{\reset@font\large\bf}}

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