FC'01 Final Call for Papers

2000-09-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga


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   Final Call for Papers

 Financial Cryptography '01

 February 19-22, 2000
  Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort
 Cayman Islands, BWI


Original papers are solicited on all aspects of financial data security and
digital commerce in general for submission to the Fifth Annual Conference on
Financial Cryptography (FC01). FC01 aims to bring together persons involved
in the financial, legal and data security fields to foster cooperation and
exchange of ideas. Relevant topics include

Anonymity Protection   Infrastructure Design
Auditability   Legal/ Regulatory Issues
Authentication/Identification  Loyalty Mechanisms
Certification/AuthorizationPayments/ Micropayments
Commercial TransactionsPrivacy Issues
Copyright/ I.P. Management Risk Management
Digital Cash/ Digital Receipts Secure Banking Systems
Economic Implications  Smart Cards
Electronic Purses  Trust Management
ImplementationsWaterMarking


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Electronic submission strongly encouraged.
(Instructions available at http://www.fc01.uwm.edu).  Alternatively,
send a cover letter and 15 copies of an extended abstract to be
received no later than October 13, 2000 (or postmarked by October 6,
2000 and sent via airmail) to the Program Chair. The extended abstract
should start with the title, names of authors, abstract, and keywords
followed by a succinct statement appropriate for a non-specialist
reader specifying the subject addressed, background, main
achievements, and significance to financial data security. Submissions
are limited to 15 single-spaced pages of 11pt type and should
constitute substantially original material. Panel proposals are due no
later than November 27, 2000 (or postmarked and airmailed by November
20).  Panel proposals should include a brief description of the panel
and a list of prospective panelists.  Notification of acceptance or
rejection of papers and panel proposals will be sent to authors no
later than December 8, 2000.  Authors of accepted papers must
guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference and must
be willing to sign an acceptable copyright agreement with Springer-Verlag.
Use the above address for electronic submissions or send hardcopy to:

Paul Syverson, FC01 Program Chair
Center for High Assurance Computer Systems  (Code 5540)
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington DC 20375  USA
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.syverson.org
phone: +1 202 404-7931

PROCEEDINGS: Final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.  Preproceedings
will be available at the conference, but final versions will not be
due until afterwards, giving authors the opportunity to revise their
papers based on presentations and discussions at the meeting.

Program Committee

Matt Blaze, ATT Labs - Research
Yair Frankel, Ecash
Matt Franklin, UC Davis
David Kravitz, Wave Systems Corp.
Arjen Lenstra, Citicorp
Philip MacKenzie, Lucent Bell Labs
Avi Rubin, ATT Labs - Research
Jacques Stern, Ecole Normale SupÈrieure
Kazue Sako, NEC
Stuart Stubblebine, CertCo
Paul Syverson (Chair), Naval Research Laboratory
Win Treese, Open Market, Inc.
Doug Tygar, UC Berkeley
Michael Waidner, IBM Zurich Research Lab
Moti Yung, CertCo

Important Dates

Extended Abstract Submissions Due: Oct. 13, 2000
Panel Proposal Submissions Due: November 27, 2000
Notification: Dec 8, 2000

Electronic submission information:
See http://www.fc01.uwm.edu

General Chair
Stuart Haber, InterTrust STAR Lab

Electronic Submission chair
George Davida, UWM

Further Information about conference registration and on travel, hotels, and
Grand Cayman itself will follow in a separate general announcement. FC01 is
organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association.
Additional information will be found at http://fc01.ai

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Re: Chaumian cash redux

2000-09-23 Thread R. A. Hettinga

At 5:37 AM + on 9/23/00, Anonymous wrote:


 what it needs is some
 organisation (a suggestion Bob) to provide demos, business
 presentations and offer suit friendly support and legal
 interpretations of the protocol's patent unemcumberedness,

Suggestion noted about a year and a half ago. :-). See the url in my .sig,
below, which is *slowly* accreting new(er) stuff besides the pretty boat
picture...

 and it
 could perhaps itself compete head on with Chaum I patents now held by
 ECashTechnologies, and to some extent with Brands/Zero-Knowledge.

As an actual financial intermediary, IBUC would rather licence than
compete, thank you very much. :-).

In the meantime, some interesting stuff is afoot. Some of it can even be
made public pretty soon, I think...

Cheers,
RAH



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Re: Chaumian cash redux

2000-09-23 Thread Bram Cohen

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:

 But of course someone did think of it before. He was just too far ahead of
 his time. When I spoke to Chaum recently, he professed to have "burned out"
 trying to make Digicash work. He had sold its patents to another company 
 and was
 no longer paying close attention to the business.
 
 He did tell me about a few of his more recent breakthroughs, however. 
  One was
 called Digilock. "You take an ordinary key," he explained, "and put it in an
 ordinary lock, and it looks it up in a database and says whether the key 
 is okay
 or not. It makes it possible for a person to have one key for everything." 
 Yeah,
 I know: It sounds a little far out. But then, I used to think e-cash sounded
 pretty far out too.

Thank you Tom Wu for already inventing SRP so no other joker can patent
it.

-Bram Cohen