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BoS: Financial Cryptography 1998 Press Announcement
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else you can think of. :-).
Thanks,
Robert Hettinga
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For Immediate Release
Press Contacts:
Christopher D. Gerath Robert Hettinga
Gerath & Associates, Inc. International Financial Cryptography Association
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Financial Cryptography '98 Conference & Exhibition to Highlight FC
Technology and Use
Second Annual Event is World's Leading FC Showcase
Boston, MA, January 22, 1998 - The International Financial Cryptography
Association (IFCA), today announced the 1998 Financial Cryptography
Conference and Exhibition (FC98), to be held on February 23-27, 1998 on the
island of Anguilla in the British West Indies.
The FC98 Conference
The International Conference on Financial Cryptography is the world's first
and only peer-reviewed conference on financial cryptography. Every year,
the newest research is presented in internet financial transfers,
transaction clearing and network-based financial instruments. This year,
invited speakers and panel participants include such industry experts as
Dr. David Chaum, holder of several very basic financial cryptography
patents and founder of DigiCash Corporation, and Dr. Ron Rivest, who
invented the first practical public key cryptography system and founder
of RSA Data Security, Inc.
However, the primary focus of the Conference will be the results of
financial cryptography research from experts at AT&T Labs, Bell
Laboratories/Lucent, CyberCash, France Telecom, JavaSoft, Kyushu
University, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Microsoft, MIT, Princeton
University, Queensland University, University of Southern California, The
US Naval Research Laboratory, Valicert, Verisign and others.
Last year's Conference, FC97, was the subject of an article in the July,
1997 issue of Wired Magazine, an NHK-Japan television program, and was
covered by the Financial Times, the New York Times, and Institutional
Investor. Financial cryptography was also the cover story of the Setember
8, 1997 issue of Forbes Magazine.
"Everyone knows business on the Internet is growing, but financial
cryptography and the vanishing cost of individual electronic transactions
will create entirely new forms of business," said Robert Hettinga, IFCA
founder and FC98 General Chairman. "Simple examples include the possible
replacement of many forms of book-entry financial settlement with digital
bearer versions, and, of course, cash settled electronic auctions for
anything you can send down a wire," Hettinga continued.
The FC98 Conference Proceedings will be available later in the year from
Springer Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
See the selection of papers for the FC98 conference at
<http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC98>.
The FC98 Exhibition
The FC98 Exhibition, which runs concurrently with the Conference, serves as
a showcase for the newest financial cryptography products. The
presentations, demonstrations, and panels of FC98 Exhibition Program will
explain what kinds of financial cryptography services and implementations
are available in the market today, while the Exhibition floor will have
booths from many of the top companies using and selling financial
cryptography today.
The FC98 Workshop for IT professionals and Senior Managers
The Financial Cryptography '98 Conference and Exhibition will be followed
by the FC98 Workshop for Senior Managers and IS Professionals, which will
be held the week following the Conference and Exhibition, from March 2-6,
1998, at the same location.
The intensive 40-hour FC98 Workshop gives senior managers and IT
professionals an understanding of the fundamentals of strong cryptography
as applied to financial operations on public networks, along with hands-on
instruction in the integration and implementation of these technologies.
FC98's Affiliations and Sponsorship
Financial Cryptography '98 is held in cooperation with the International
Association for Cryptologic Research. Sponsoring organizations include RSA
Data Security Inc., <http://www.rsa.com/>; C2NET, Inc., <http://www.c2.net/>;
Hansa Bank & Trust Company Limited, Anguilla, <http://www.hansa.net/>;
Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank; Offshore Information Services,
<http://www.offshore.com.ai/>; and Shipwright Development Corporation,
<http://www.shipwright.com/>.
The FC98 Organizing Committee consists of: Vincent Cate and Robert
Hettinga, General Chairs; Rafael Hirschfeld, Conference Chair; Matthew
Franklin, Conference Co-Chair; Ian Goldberg, Workshop Leader; Lynwood Bell,
Exhibition Steering Committee Chair; and Blanc Weber, Exhibits and
Sponsorship Manager.
Registration and Travel
Registration for FC98 can be done directly on the Internet at
<http://www.fc98.ai/>, by calling (264) 497-3255, faxing (264) 497-2756,
email with PGP encryption to <mailto:vince@offshore.com.ai> or physically
mailing the registration form to 949 Old Ta, The Valley, Anguilla, BWI.
Admission to the Exhibition and Conference requires advance payment of the
$1,000 admission fee. If you're interested in Exhibition space or becoming
an event sponsor, please email Blanc Weber, <mailto:blancw@cnw.com>.
Air travel to Anguilla is typically done through San Juan or St. Martin.
There are several non-stop flights a day from various European and US
locations. Connection through to Anguilla can be made through American
Eagle, through LIAT, or in the case of St. Martin, with a short ferry ride
to Anguilla. Consult a travel agent for details or visit our web page at
<http://www.fc98.ai/>.
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Financial Cryptography '98
Second International Conference
February 23-25, 1998, Anguilla, BWI
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
General Information:
Financial Cryptography '98 (FC98) is a conference on the security of
digital financial transactions. Meetings alternate between the island
of Anguilla in the British West Indies and other locations. This
second meeting will be held in Anguilla on February 23-25, 1998. FC98
aims to bring together persons involved in both the financial and data
security fields to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas.
Original papers were solicited on all aspects of financial data
security and digital commerce in general.
Program Committee:
Matt Blaze, AT&T Laboratories--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA
Antoon Bosselaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Yves Carlier, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland
Walter Effross, Washington College of Law, American U., Washington DC, USA
Matthew Franklin (Co-Chair), AT&T Laboratories--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA
Michael Froomkin, U. Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Rafael Hirschfeld (Chair), Unipay Technologies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alain Mayer, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Frank Trotter, Mark Twain Ecash/Mercantile Bank, St. Louis, MO, USA
Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Moti Yung, CertCo LLC (formerly: Bankers Trust E-Commerce), New York, NY, USA
Conference Program for FC98:
Monday 23 February 1998
800 -- 820
Breakfast
820 -- 830
Welcome
830 -- 905
Micropayments via Efficient Coin-Flipping
Richard J. Lipton (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Rafail Ostrovsky (Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA)
905 -- 940
X-Cash: Executable Digital Cash
Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, Bedford, MA, USA)
940 -- 1015
Billing Without Paper...Or Billing Without Billers?
Caveat Biller: 3rd Party Concentrators Could Come Between You
and Your Customers
Richard K. Crone (CyberCash, Reston, VA, USA)
1015 -- 1045
Coffee Break
1045 -- 1120
A Platform for Privately Defined Currencies, Loyalty Credits,
and Play Money
David P. Maher (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1120 -- 1155
Assessment of Threats for Smart Card Based Electronic Cash
Kazuo J. Ezawa, Gregory Napiorkowski
(Mondex International, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1155 -- 1230
Using a High-Performance, Programmable Secure Coprocessor
Sean W. Smith, Elaine R. Palmer, Steve Weingart
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA)
1230 -- 1330
Lunch
1800 -- 1930
Cocktail Reception (at Mariners Hotel)
Tuesday 24 February 1998
800 -- 830
Breakfast
830 -- 905
Secure Group Barter:
Multi-Party Fair Exchange with Semi-Trusted Neutral Parties
Matt Franklin (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
Gene Tsudik (USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA)
905 -- 940
A Payment Scheme Using Vouchers
Ernest Foo, Colin Boyd
(Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)
940 -- 1015
A Formal Specification of Requirements for Payment Transactions
in the SET Protocol
Catherine Meadows, Paul Syverson
(Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA)
1015 -- 1045
Coffee Break
1045 -- 1120
On Assurance Structures for WWW Commerce
Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
Moti Yung (CertCo, New York, NY, USA)
1120 -- 1230
Panel Discussion
Certificate Revocation: Mechanics and Meaning
Barb Fox (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), moderator
Joan Feigenbaum (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
Paul Kocher (Valicert, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
Michael Myers (Verisign, Mountain View, CA, USA)
Ron Rivest (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA)
1230 -- 1330
Lunch
2000 -- 2200
Rump Session
Wednesday 25 February 1998
800 -- 830
Breakfast
830 -- 930
Invited Speaker
Private Signatures and E-commerce
David Chaum (DigiCash, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
930 -- 1005
Group Blind Digital Signatures:
A Scalable Solution to Electronic Cash
Anna Lysyanskaya, Zulfikar Ramzan
(MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA)
1005 -- 1045
Coffee Break
1045 -- 1120
Curbing Junk E-Mail via Secure Classification
Eran Gabber, Markus Jakobsson, Yossi Matias, Alain Mayer
(Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
1120 -- 1155
Publicly Verifiable Lotteries:
Applications of Delaying Functions
David M. Goldschlag (Divx, Herndon, VA, USA)
Stuart G. Stubblebine (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1155 -- 1230
Security of Digital Watermarks
Lesley R. Matheson, Stephen G. Mitchell, Talal G. Shamoon,
Robert E. Tarjan, Francis X. Zane
(STAR Lab, InterTrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
1230 -- 1330
Lunch
1330 -- 1405
Security in the Java Electronic Commerce Framework
Surya Koneru, Ted Goldstein
(JavaSoft, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
1405 -- 1440
Beyond Identity: Warranty-Based Digital Signature Transactions
Yair Frankel, David W. Kravitz, Charles T. Montgomery, Moti Yung
(CertCo, New York, NY, USA)
1440 -- 1515
Compliance Checking in the PolicyMaker Trust Management System
Matt Blaze, Joan Feigenbaum, Martin Strauss
(AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1515 -- 1545
Coffee Break
1545 -- 1620
An Efficient Fair Off-Line Electronic Cash System
with Extensions to Checks and Wallets with Observers
Aymeric de Solages, Jacque Traore
(France Telecom--CNET, Caen, France)
1620 -- 1655
An Efficient Untraceable Electronic Money System Based on
Partially Blind Signatures of the Discrete Logarithm Problem
Shingo Mayazaki, Kouichi Sakurai
(Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
1655 -- 1700
Closing
The conference schedule and additional information is available at the
URL http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC98/.
Breakfast and lunch are provided at the conference. The conference
organizers have left time open for corporate sponsored events, for
networking, and for recreational activities on the resort island of
Anguilla. Participants are encouraged to bring their families.
Workshop:
A 40-hour workshop, intended for anyone with commercial software
development experience who wants hands-on familiarity with the issues
and technology of financial cryptography, is planned in conjunction
with FC98, to be held during the week following the conference.
For more information on the workshop, please see the URL
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~iang/fc98/workshop.html.
For workshop registration, see the URL http://fc98.ai/.
Special Attraction:
On Thursday, February 26, 1998, there will be a total eclipse of the
sun. The narrow zone of 100% totality will pass just south of
Anguilla. A boat excursion to the center of the eclipse zone is
planned, for an optimal view of the eclipse. The excursion is
included in the conference registration; additional tickets can be
purchased for accompanying persons.
Venue:
The Inter-Island Hotel is a small 14-room guest house with a large,
comfortable 150-seat conference facility and additional space for a
small 10-booth exhibition. The Inter-Island is on Road Bay, near
Sandy Ground Village, in the South Hill section of Anguilla. The
conference, workshop, and exhibition will have TCP/IP internet access.
Shuttle service to the conference will be available.
Air Transportation and Hotels:
Air travel to Anguilla is typically done through San Juan for US
flights, or St. Maarten/Martin for flights from Europe and the US.
There are also connections via Antigua.
Anguillan import duties are not imposed on hardware or software which
will leave the island again. There are no other taxes--or cryptography
import/export restrictions--on Anguilla.
Hotels range from spartan to luxurious, and more information about
hotels on Anguilla can be obtained from your travel agent, or at the
URL http://fc98.ai/. A block reservation has been made at Mariners,
and this is the recommended hotel except for those seeking budget
accomodations.
General Chairs:
Robert Hettinga, Shipwright, Boston, MA, USA
email: rah@shipwright.com
Vincent Cate, Offshore Information Services, Anguilla, BWI
email: vince@offshore.com.ai
Exhibits and Sponsorship Manager:
Blanc Weber, Seattle, WA, USA
email: blancw@cnw.com
Workshop Leader:
Ian Goldberg, Berkeley, CA, USA
email: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
Registration:
You can register and pay for conference admission via the World Wide
Web at the URL http://fc98.ai/.
The cost of the FC98 Conference is US$1,000. There are reduced rates
of US$250 and US$100 for full-time academics and students.
Booths for the exhibition start at US$5,000 and include two conference
tickets. For more information about exhibit space, contact Blanc
Weber, blancw@cnw.com. Sponsorship opportunities for FC98 are still
available.
The cost of the workshop is US$5000, and includes meals but not
lodging. You can register for the workshop, which runs the week after
the conference, at the URL http://fc98.ai/.
Financial Cryptography '98 is held in cooperation with the
International Association for Cryptologic Research.
It is sponsored by:
RSA Data Security Inc. <http://www.rsa.com>
C2NET, Inc. <http://www.c2.net>
Hansa Bank & Trust Company Limited, Anguilla <http://www.hansa.net/>
Sicherheit und Privat- International Bank
Offshore Information Services <http://www.offshore.com.ai/>
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