20 January 1998

    Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 04:25:40 +0100 (MET)
    From: Ray Hirschfeld <R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl>
    To: R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl
    Subject: Financial Cryptography '98 Preliminary Program
    Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com

                          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 <mailto:spbank@schloss.li>
    Offshore Information Services <http://www.offshore.com.ai/>
    e$ <http://www.shipwright.com>