Re: [fc] list of papers accepted to FC'03

[Ben Laurie]

Tim May wrote:

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 07:55  AM, IanG wrote:
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I see pretty much a standard list of crypto papers
here, albeit crypto with a waving of finance salt.

What ever happened to Financial Cryptography?  The
organisers did say they were going to look at wider
accessibility for the coming year, but I see only
these papers that are, from the titles at least,
anything that speaks to non-cryptographers:

...list of a few slightly interesting-sounding papers elided...

Even they're a stretch.  All are specialised, and
none are of interest to the non-deep-techies.

On a related front, how much interest is there in
running EFCE this coming June?

Is the conference still being held on an expensive Caribbean island?

I've never been to an FC Conference, for various reasons. Certainly one of them is that I have things I'd rather buy with the $3000 I'd have to spend if I attended.

My speculation, not having attended but having talked to people who have, is that the conference is a junket, a reason to go to Caribbean during the winter. Fine, if IBM or Citicorp is paying. A nice, untaxable fringe benefit. Not so fine for hackers and people like us.

For that, there's the Codecon in SF which Bram and Len and others are involved in.

EFCE is pretty much CodeCon for FC (though it might be fairer to but it the other way round, since EFCE came first).

Cheers,

Ben.

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