--- begin forwarded text Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:11:58 -0400 (AST) From: Ian Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: EFCE Prelim Programme Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> EFCE 2000 - Preliminary 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 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. Amir Herzberg - IBM Micropayments as a basis for ecommerce interoperability. Neil Garner - MAOSCO. Downloading digital IDs securely onto blank MULTOS cards and then using the ID to complete non- repudiable transactions. (lunch) Invited Financial Cryptography speaker Douglas Jackson - e-gold Ltd, the leading online currency reserved in physical metal, will be shown transacting over POS devices such as WAP phones. 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 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... Ben Laurie - Wagner blinding in a Java toolkit as a basis for privacy-protected online currencies. Tyler Close - IPOs over E-rights. Listings on the ferex.com exchange, as an example of application design within the E environment. (lunch) Scott Moskowitz - Trusted Transactions: digital watermarking using steganographic ciphering techniques. Victor Dostov - PayCash is a new cash-like software payment system using a blinded formula, all invented and developed in Russia. 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'
