--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:21:44 +0100 To: "EFCE 2K Conference List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Ian Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Fearghas McKay) Subject: [EFCE2K] very close to EFCE Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This might be the last one I can do, I'm flying on Wednesday morning and from there, hit the ground running (or, sleep walking) and almost straight into the conference. New content with this release is the Oakington team. Regardless, there might be some new content by the time we get there, if you are considering presenting, let me know ASAP so we can get you in. There is no deadline other than practicality... Remember, Running code... FC... EFCE 2000 - Draft Programme The First Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering Conference 23-24 June 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland ______________________________________________________ / \ / \ | Keynote by Ir. Simon Lelieveldt | | | | Lessons from the history of Dutch Payment Systems | | | | A walk through Dutch payments history, | | including the Amsterdam Exchange Bank | | (1608), the Municipal Giro 1916, and | | on to the most competitive chipcard | | money environment in the world today. | \ / \______________________________________________________/ "E-Commerce *is* Financial Cryptography" Friday - Day 1 - 23rd June - 09.30 Ir. Simon Lelieveldt - Keynote, see above. Edwin Woudt - Financial contracts with OpenPGP. A format for signed and parsable contracts that is suitable for describing online instruments. Ilan Zisser and Amir Herzberg - IBM Micropayments as a basis for ecommerce interoperability. Rachel Willmer - the Intertrader CashBox. A payment management system which supports Internet loading and spending of a variety of Internet payment types, including the Mondex smartcard. Seen in action controlling Internet access, puchasing mail order goods, gaming, offering currency exchange... (lunch 12.30 - 14.00) (reserved session) Neil Garner and Matthew Barker from Consult Hyperion. Downloading digital IDs securely onto blank MULTOS cards and then using the ID to complete non-repudiable transactions. Pelle Braendgaard - Networked Economic Units, a new breed of electronic rights management entities, shown managing domains, e-gold accounts and collections of other other NEU's. Ian Grigg - WebFunds, a Java application that acts as a host and platform for payment systems such as SOX, and user features such as email payments. Saturday - Day 2 - 24th June - 09.30 Douglas Jackson - e-gold Ltd, the leading online currency reserved in physical metal, will be shown transacting over POS devices such as WAP phones. James Milner and Peter Dawe - Minting and Transacting in Realtime. A secure, private electronic money system that provides for exchange, which does not present a threat to established institutions. Tyler Close - IPOs of E-rights. Listings on the ferex.com exchange, as an example of application design within the Droplets environment. (lunch 12.30 - 14.00) Scott Moskowitz - Trusted Transactions: digital watermarking using steganographic ciphering techniques. Ildar Khamitov and Victor Dostov - PayCash is a new cash-like software payment system using a blinded formula, all invented and developed in Russia. Ben Laurie - Wagner blinding in a Java toolkit as a basis for privacy-protected online currencies. For any questions on the above programme, or new proposals, please email iang at systemics.com. This conference is an informal gathering of peers, the programme will change dynamically. Please check <http://www.efce.net/programme.html> for the latest version. WHERE DO I FIND OUT MORE <http://www.efce.net/> HOW DO I REGISTER? GBP 200 for presenters of running FC code, GBP 500 for delegates. MORE QUESTIONS? Please mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SPONSORSHIP The founding sponsors of EFCE 2000 are: Consult Hyperion <http://www.consult.hyperion.co.uk/> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> Intertrader <http://www.intertrader.com/> Systemics <http://www.systemics.com/> --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'