Schedule

Financial Cryptography '99 Conference

Monday 22 February 1999
Tuesday 23 February 1999
Wednesday 24 February 1999
Thursday 25 February 1999

Monday 22 February 1999

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Opening Remarks
9:10 AM - 10:00 AM Electronic Commerce (Chair: Matt Franklin)
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM Experimenting with electronic commerce on the PalmPilot. Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh (Stanford University, U.S.A)
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM Blinding of credit card numbers in the SET protocol. Hugo Krawczyk (Technion, Israel, and IBM Research, U.S.A.)
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM Anonymity Control (Chair: Yair Frankel)
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM Trustee tokens: Simple and practical anonymous digital coin tracing. Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, U.S.A.)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM A new approach for anonymity control in electronic cash systems. Tomas Sander, Amnon Ta-Shma (ICSI, U.S.A.)
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Fraud Management (Chair: David Goldschlag)
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM E-cash systems with randomized audit. Yacov Yacobi (Microsoft Research, U.S.A.)
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM Assessment of counterfeit detection systems for smart card based ecash. K. Ezawa, G. Napiorkowski, M. Kossarski (Mondex International, U.S.A.)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Exhibition Session
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM The technology behind DigiGold,  a gold-denominated currency with reserves held in the e-gold system. Ian Grigg, e-gold Transnational
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Locating and managing your intellectual property offshore. Lynwood Bell, Hansa.net & Hansa Bank
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Welcome Reception at Mariners, sponsored by Hansa.net & Hansa Bank

Tuesday 23 February 1999

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM  Invited Speaker (Chair: Jacques Stern)
Crypto predictions. Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM Public-Key Certificates (Chair: Clifford Neuman)
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM Reasoning about certification: On bindings between entities and public keys. Reto Kohlas, Ueli Maurer (ETH, Switzerland)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM Online certificate checking in financial transactions: The case for re-issuance. Barbara Fox, Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft, U.S.A.)
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Panel (Chair: Michael Myers, Verisign)
Online certificate checking: One year later. Barbara Fox (Microsoft); Ambarish Malpani (Valicert); Patrick Richard (Xcert)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM IFCA General Meeting
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Rump Session
At Chandeliers, with food and drinks sponsored by nCipher Corporation

Wednesday 24 February 1999

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM Steganography (Chair: Yacov Yacobi)
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM Playing "hide and seek" with stored keys. A. Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Israel), N. van Someren (nCipher, England)
9:25 AM - 9:50 AM On channel capacity and modulation in watermarking of digital still images. Markus Breitbach, Hideki Imai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM Content Distribution (Chair: Berry Schoenmakers)
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM Towards making broadcast encryption practical. M. Abdalla (U.C. San Diego), Y. Shavitt, A. Wool (Bell Labs, U.S.A.)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM Conditional access concepts and principles. David Kravitz, David Goldschlag (Divx, U.S.A.)
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM Panel (Chair: Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs)
Fair use, intellectual property, and the information economy. Erin Sawyer (Cooley Godward LLP); Ed Fish (InterTrust Legal Dept.); Dan Boneh (Stanford); Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft NT Security Research);David Goldschlag (DivX); Jon Callas (Network Associates).
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:00 PM Exhibition Session
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM Key provisioning, protection and processing - scaleable hardware crypto solutions. Alex van Someren, nCipher
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM Who the hell is EuroRSCG Interactive? Paul Dinnissen, EURO RSCG Interactive
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Cocktail Reception, sponsored by e-gold Transnational

Thursday 25 February 1999

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM Anonymity Mechanisms (Chair: Ari Juels)
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM Anonymous authentication of membership in dynamic groups. Stuart Schechter (Harvard), Todd Parnell, Alex Hartemink (MIT, U.S.A.)
9:25 AM - 9:50 AM Some open issues and new directions in group signatures. Giuseppe Ateniese (Universita di Genova, Italy), Gene Tsudik (ISI, U.S.A.)
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 11:10 AM Auctions and Markets (Chair: Clifford Neuman)
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM Anonymous investing: Hiding the identities of stockholders. P. MacKenzie (Bell Labs, U.S.A.), J. Sorensen (IBM Research, U.S.A.)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AM Fair on-line auctions without special trusted parties. S. Stubblebine (CertCo, U.S.A.), P. Syverson (Naval Research Lab, U.S.A.)
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM Distributed Crypto (Chair: Joan Feigenbaum)
11:10 AM - 11:35 PM Dynamic-fault cryptosystems for enterprise organizational change-control. Yair Frankel and Moti Yung (CertCo, U.S.A.)
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM Improved magic ink signatures using hints. M. Jakobsson (Bell Labs, U.S.A.), J. Muller (Gutenberg Univ., Germany)
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Closing Remarks
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM Exhibition Session
1:10 PM - 1:25 PM Evolution of Internet services in Anguilla. Sutcliffe Hodge, Cable & Wireless
1:25 PM - 1:40 PM ACORN: Anguilla's Commercial Online Registration Network. John Lawrence, Anguilla Financial Services Department
1:40 PM - 2:10 PM SAXAS: Secure Account Exchange Arbitration System. Vincent Cate, Offshore Information Services
last update: 20 February 1999