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CFP: Financial Cryptography '98 Workshop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Tue Nov 25 00:47:37 1997
To: fc98@offshore.com.ai
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:22:13 -0800
From: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
The Financial Cryptography 1998 (FC98)
Workshop for Senior Managers and IS Professionals
March 2-6, 1998
The InterIsland Hotel
Anguilla, BWI
<http://fc98.ai/>
FC98 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/>
Offshore Information Services <http://www.offshore.com.ai/>
e$ <http://www.shipwright.com/>
FC98 Conference and Exhibition,
February 23-27, 1998
FC98 Workshop for Senior Managers and IS Professionals
March 2-6, 1998
The Inter-Island Hotel
Anguilla, BWI
Workshop and Conference Reservations: <http://fc98.ai/>
Last year, the Financial Cryptography '97 (FC97) Workshop was the world's
first intensive financial cryptography workshop for senior managers and
IS professionals. This year, the Financial Cryptography '98 (FC98)
Workshop will be held Monday through Friday, March 2-6, 1998, at the
Inter-Island Hotel on the Carribbean island of Anguilla.
This workshop will follow the peer-reviewed financial cryptography
conference and commercial exhibition, Financial Cryptography 1998 (FC98),
which will be held the preceding week, February 23-27, 1998.
The goals of the combined workshop, conference and exhibition are:
-- to give senior managers and IS professionals a solid understanding of
the fundamentals of strong cryptgraphy as applied to financial
operations on public networks,
-- to provide a peer-reviewed forum for important research in financial
cryptography and the effects it will have on society, and,
-- to showcase the newest products in financial cryptography.
The Workshop
Ian Goldberg, the Workshop chair, has picked an outstanding team of
instructors in financial cryptography and internet financial system
security to teach the courses in this workshop. The Workshop will consist
of 40 hours of intensive instruction and lab time over 5 days. Students
will have access to Internet-connected workstations.
Who Should Attend
The Workshop is intended for senior IS managers and technical professionals
who want to get completely up to speed on the design, development, and
implementation of financial cryptography systems, the core technology of
internet commerce. After the workshop, senior managers will have a hands-on
understanding the strengths and liabilities of currently available
financial cryptography and internet transaction security software and
hardware, and thus be able to make better asset allocation decisions in
this area of explosive technology growth. Senior technical professionals
with strong IS experience will be able to implement those technologies and
to pass on what they've learned to their clients and colleagues when they
return home.
The Workshop will be held in a casual but intensive atmosphere at the
very cutting edge of financial technology on the internet. Someone has
likened the experience to a financial cryptography bootcamp. At the end,
Workshop attendees should be utterly conversant in cryptography as it
applies to finance. Workshop participants will not only know what everyone
else is doing now in internet commerce, but, more important, because
they understand the implications of strong financial cryptography on
ubiquitous public networks, they will be able to know what to do *next*.
The Workshop Leader
Ian Goldberg is a Ph.D. student in security and cryptography at the
University of California, Berkeley. He was the first winner of RSA Data
Security Inc.'s Secret-Key Challenge, breaking a 40-bit cipher in just
3.5 hours. In late 1995, he discovered what became a much-publicized
flaw in Netscape's implementation of SSL. He is a recognized expert
in electronic payment systems, and in DigiCash's ecash digital bearer
certificate protocol in particular. He has produced several ecash clients
for Unix and Windows, as well as an ecash module for the Stronghold web
server, which has extended the existing ecash system for better security,
privacy, and ease-of-use.
The Principal Instructors
Gary Howland worked on digital cash systems for DigiCash, and then moved to
Systemics, where he developed the SOX protocol, a flexible payments system
currently in use in a bond trading environment, soon to be available to the
public. He also developed the Cryptix and PGP libraries in Perl, and
assisted on the Cryptix and PGP library implementations in Java.
Bruce Schneier is the author of Applied Cryptography (John Wiley &
Sons, 1994 & 1996), the seminal work in its field. Now in its second
edition, Applied Cryptography has sold over 80,000 copies world-wide
and has been translated into four languages. His papers have appeared at
several international conferences, and he has written dozens of articles
on cryptography for major magazines. He is a contributing editor to
Dr. Dobbs Journal, where he edited the "Algorithms Alley" column, and
has been a contributing editor to Computer and Communications Security
Reviews. He was the General Chair for Crypto '97.
Adam Shostack is Director of Technology for Netect, Inc, a Boston
based startup building state of the art server security management
applications. He has extensive background in designing, implementing
and testing secure systems for clients in the medical, computer,
and financial industries. His recent public work includes 'Apparent
Weaknesses in the Security Dynamics Client Server Protocol,' 'Source Code
Review Guidelines,' and comparisons of freely available cryptographic
libraries.
Workshop Topics
The following is an outline of the topics that the workshop will cover:
Security on the Internet
Internet Protocols: IP, TCP, UDP
Higher-level Protocols: Telnet, FTP, HTTP, SSL
Solid Foundations for Cryptographic Systems
A History of Internet Attacks
Building Internet Firewalls
Building a Bastion Host
Turning your Bastion Host into a Web Server
Non-internet Internet Security
Cryptography
The Need for Cryptography
History of Cryptography
Classical Methods
Modern Methods
Private and Public Key Cryptography
Authentication vs. Security
Certification and Public Key Infrastructures
Cryptographic Protocols
Engineering a Cryptographically Secure System
Why Cryptography is Harder than it Looks
Security Through Obscurity and How to Recognize Snake Oil
Internet Payment Systems
Payment models: coin-based, cheque-based, account-based
Security Issues
Privacy and Anonymity Issues
Smartcards vs. Software
Existing Payment Schemes
Credit Cards
First Virtual
CyberCash
DigiCash
Forthcoming Payment Schemes
SET
Mondex
Millicent
micropayments
Setting Up an ecash-Enabled Web Server
Setting up the Web Server
Signing up for ecash
Installing the ecash Module
Setting Prices
Logging
Advanced Methods
ecashiers
moneychangers
The price of the workshop is $5,000 U.S. You can pay for your FC98
workshop ticket with Visa or MasterCard, with ecash, or with any of a
number of other internet commerce payment protocols, at the regstriation
site: <http://fc98.ai/>. Please register and make your plane and hotel
reservations as soon as possible; workshop space is extremely limited.
The workshop price includes meals (but not lodging) at the InterIsland
Hotel and lab space, plus the delivery and installation of hardware,
network access, internet commerce software, all to a location like
Anguilla. And, of course, 40 hours of instruction and structured lab
activity. We have priced the workshop to be competitive with other
comprehensive business and professional technology workshops of similar
total session length.
In addition, the first ten FC97 workshop participants will receive a 50%
reduction in their FC97 Conference and Exhibition fee, for a savings of
$500 off the $1,000 conference admission.
You can register, and pay for, your workshop ticket at <http://fc98.ai/>.
Air Transportation and Hotels
Air travel to Anguilla is typically done through San Juan or
St. Maarten/Martin. There are several non-stop flights a day from various
US and European locations. Connection through to Anguilla can be made
through American Eagle, or through LIAT, or in the case of St. Maarten,
with a short ferry ride to Anguilla. See your travel agent for details.
Anguilla's runway is 3600 feet, with a displaced threshold of 600 feet,
and can accomodate business jets. Obviously, you should talk to your
aviation staff for details about your own aircraft's capabilities in this
regard.
Anguilla import duties are not imposed on hardware or software which
will leave the island again, so, as long as you take it with you when
you leave, you won't pay import duties.
PLEASE NOTE: Your FC98 Workshop fee only covers *meals* at the InterIsland
Hotel. The InterIsland is actually a small guesthouse attached to a large
conference facility, and so rooms there are in short supply. Fortunately,
there are lots of small hotels and guesthouses nearby. For more information
on these hotels, please see <http://fc98.ai/> for more information.
Other hotels on Anguilla range from spartan to luxurious, all within easy
walking or driving distance of the Workshop at the InterIsland. More
information about Anguillan hotels can be obtained from your travel agent,
or at <http://fc98.ai/>.
Registration and Information for Other FC98 Events
To register and pay for your ticket to the FC98 conference itself, see:
<http://fc98.ai/>
For information the selection of papers for the FC98 conference see:
<http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC98>
If you're interested in Exhibition space, please contact Julie Rackliffe:
<mailto:julie@sneaker.net>
If you're interested in sponsoring FC98, also contact Julie Rackliffe:
<mailto:julie@sneaker.net>
Financial Cryptography '98 is held in cooperation with the International
Association for Cryptologic Research. The conference proceedings will be
published by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.
The FC98 Organizing Committee:
Vince Cate and Bob Hettinga, General Chairs
Ray Hirschfeld, Conference Chair
Matt Franklin, Conference Co-Chair
Ian Goldberg, Workshop Chair
Julie Rackliffe, Exhibit and Sponsorship Manager
And our sponsors...
RSA Data Security Inc. <http://www.rsa.com/>
C2NET, Inc. <http://www.c2.net/>
Hansa Bank & Trust Company Limited, Anguilla <http://www.hansa.net/>
Offshore Information Services <http://www.offshore.com.ai/>
e$ <http://www.shipwright.com/>
