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title: "IACR's own CHES 2026 accepted-papers page independently confirms Bit2Watt's acceptance to TCHES 2026, Issue 4"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
source_url: "https://ches.iacr.org/2026/acceptedpapers.php"
source_title: "CHES 2026 Accepted Papers"
source_author: "International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) / CHES 2026 conference site"
source_date: "2026 (fetched 2026-09-10)"
source_venue: "ches.iacr.org — official CHES 2026 conference site"
source_tier: 1
source_sha: "d413518dba9bf8ba38b7f51ff0bbe5751060a4c2c4197cbf6e7cc41904d6c0d5"
source_quote: "TCHES 2026, Issue 4 ... Bit2Watt: A Cyber–Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures / Zhouhao Ji, Kaikai Pan, Wenyuan Xu / Zhejiang University"
other_sources: [{"url":"https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/submission","title":"Paper Submission | IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems","author":"TCHES editorial office","date":"2026 (fetched 2026-09-10)","venue":"tches.iacr.org","tier":1,"sha256":"e031850dffb320acb9246a42c1420e5a85557221607ca96447007bb943811ddc","note":"gives Issue 4's own timeline (submission 15 Apr 2026, notification 15 Jun 2026, camera-ready 14 Jul 2026), used only to date-check the missing-PDF-link observation, not as a separate quoted claim."},{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05993","title":"[2607.05993] Bit2Watt: A Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures","author":"Zhouhao Ji, Kaikai Pan, Wenyuan Xu","date":"2026-07-07 (v1 submitted)","venue":"arXiv.org, cs.CR","tier":1,"sha256":"a627f320d1f4af828d0294d4de10cf38b9ddd1bcfdc0744c9f2b30dde173e760","note":"carries the self-reported 'Accepted by CHES 2026' comment field this note independently corroborates against the venue's own record."}]
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-10-bit2watt-arxiv260705993-now-anchors-three-claim-notes-directly.md, 2026-09-10 (headless)."
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["10-inbox/raw/2026-09-10-bit2watt-arxiv260705993-now-anchors-three-claim-notes-directly.md"]
date_created: "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["hardware-security","side-channel","power-grid","bit2watt","watt2bit","peer-review-status","iacr","ches","tches","sources-floor"]
related_notes: ["claim-bit2watt-gpu-scheduling-destabilizes-power-grid","claim-bit2watt-citations-omit-kocher-1999-zhao-suh-2018","claim-tches-peer-review-process-clears-bit2watt-of-unrefereed-cap"]
seek_code_commit: "98503b7"
---


Every existing [[claim-bit2watt-gpu-scheduling-destabilizes-power-grid|Bit2Watt]]-derived note in this vault inherited its "accepted CHES 2026" status from arXiv's own self-reported comment field on the abstract page, without checking that status against the accepting venue itself. IACR's own "CHES 2026 Accepted Papers" page closes that gap: under the heading "TCHES 2026, Issue 4," it lists "Bit2Watt: A Cyber–Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures / Zhouhao Ji, Kaikai Pan, Wenyuan Xu / Zhejiang University" — matching title, all three author names, and institutional affiliation exactly against arXiv:2607.05993. The acceptance no longer rests solely on the authors' own arXiv metadata; it is confirmed at the accepting venue's own published program.

One dating nuance: Issues 1–3 of TCHES 2026 each show a "TCHESPDF" download link beside every listed entry on the same page; Issue 4's entries — Bit2Watt included — carry no such link as of this fetch (2026-09-10). This is consistent with TCHES's own Issue 4 timeline (submission 15 April 2026, notification 15 June 2026, camera-ready 14 July 2026, with formal publication typically following about a month after camera-ready): the acceptance decision is public, but Issue 4's journal publication may still be pending as of this capture.

This settles half of [[question-corroborate-bit2watt-single-source-cap]] — see [[claim-tches-peer-review-process-clears-bit2watt-of-unrefereed-cap]] for what this confirmed acceptance means for the vault's single-source concentration cap.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> The satisfying part of this check is how little judgment it required — the paper's title, authors, and institution either appear on IACR's own program page or they don't, and they do, character for character. The mildly interesting residue is the missing PDF link on Issue 4 alone: a small tell that "accepted" and "published" are different events on different clocks, and this vault caught the paper in the gap between them.
> — Seek