Financial Cryptography '04 9-12 February 2004 Key West, Florida, USA
2nd Call for Participation Note: Early registration ends on January 9th, 2004! Financial Cryptography is the premier international forum for education, exploration, and debate at the heart of one theme: Money and trust in the digital world. Dedicated to the relationship between cryptography and data security and cutting-edge financial and payment technologies and trends, the conference brings together top data-security specialists and scientists with economists, bankers, implementers, and policy makers. Financial Cryptography includes a program of invited talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations, and panel discussions. These explore a range of topics in their full technical and interdisciplinary complexity: Emerging financial instruments and trends, legal regulation of financial technologies and privacy issues, encryption and authentication techologies, digital cash, and smartcard payment systems -- among many others. The conference proceedings containing all accepted submissions will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the conference. A pre-proceedings containing preliminary versions of the papers will be distributed at the conference. FC'04 Keynote Speakers: Jack Selby - "The Failure of eCash: New solutions, same old problems" Ron Rivest - title to be announced Jacques Stern - "Cryptography and French banking cards: past, present, future" Simon Pugh - "Security & Risk Management of Transactions for Paypass" Jon Peha - "Bringing Payment Technology to the Unbanked" More detailed information on the invited speakers is available on the web site, as well as the list of accepted papers and the preliminary schedule. Registration for Financial Cryptography 2004 is open; details and online registration can be found at http://fc04.ifca.ai along with information about discounted hotel accommodation and travel. Early registration ends on January 9th, 2004! Financial Cryptography is organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA). More information can be obtained from the IFCA web site at http://www.ifca.ai or by contacting the conference general chair, Hinde ten Berge, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]