WPI Cryptoseminar, Thursday, March 11

[Robert Hettinga]

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WPI Cryptography and Information Security Seminar

 Jens-Peter  Kaps
  GTE CyberTrust

  Electronic Commerce: An Overview of SET and other Technologies

Thursday, March 11
 4:00 pm, AK 108
(refreshments at 3:45 pm)

Electronic Commerce is not an idea that will be realized in some distant
future but it is here today. The value of goods and services sold online
amounts to $40 billion in 1998 and is predicted to rise to $900 billion in
2003. In order to make shopping on the Internet secure several technologies
have been developed, most notably the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) proposed by
Netscape and Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) by Visa, MasterCard, GTE,
IBM and others. SSL is widely used and is about to be superseded by
Transport Layer Security (TLS) proposed by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF). SET is currently being deployed. This presentation will
provide an overview of technologies for electronic commerce and discuss both
SSL and SET.


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DIRECTIONS:

The WPI Cryptoseminar is being held in the Atwater Kent building on the WPI
campus. The Atwater Kent building is at the intersection of West and
Salisbury Street. Directions to the campus can be found at
  http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html


TALKS IN THE SPRING '99 SEMESTER:

3/4   Jian Zhao, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics
  Mobile Agent Security

3/11  Jens-Peter Kaps, GTE CyberTrust
  Electronic Commerce: An Overview of SET and other Technologies

TBA   Gerardo Orlando, GTE Government Systems/WPI
  Galois Field Multiplier Architectures for FPGAs and their Applications
  to Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems

4/1   Bob Silverman, RSA Labs
  Zero Knowledge Proofs that an Integer is Hard to Factor

4/9   Thomas Blum, WPI
  Modular Arithmetic FPGA Architectures for Public-Key Algorithms
  (MS Thesis Defense)

TBA   Brendon Chetwynd, Thomas Connor, Sheng Deng, Stephen Marchant, WPI
  An Algorithm-Agile Cryptographic Coprocessor Based on FPGAs

See
  http://ece.WPI.EDU/Research/crypt/seminar/index.html
for talk abstracts.


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Regards,

Christof Paar

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Robert A. Hettinga 
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism 
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'

E-cash developers interview request

[Declan McCullagh]

Charles Platt, a Wired magazine contributor and SF author, is working on a
story about digital cash, past, present, future.

If you're actively involved in such development, please email him at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Declan

Privacy Czar Warns Regulation Is Still Possible (was Re: ECARMNEWS for March 09,1999 First Ed.)

[Robert Hettinga]

At 2:00 AM -0500 on 3/9/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> Title: Privacy Czar Warns Regulation Is Still Possible
> Resource Type: News Article
> Date: Mar 5, 1999 (1:06 PM)
> Source: TechWeb
> Author: Mo Krochmal
> Keywords: GOVT POLICY ,PRIVACY ,REGULATION  ,E-COMMERCE
>
> Abstract/Summary:
> BERKELEY, Calif. -- The White House's newly appointed
> privacy czar warned that government regulation is still a
> possibility to protect the privacy of Internet users. Speaking on a
> panel at the Legal and Policy Framework for Global Electronic
> Commerce Conference at the University of California-Berkeley
> on Friday, Peter Swire said he will review federal, private-sector
> and international privacy issues created by new information
> technologies.
>
> Swire, law professor at Ohio State University who earlier this
> week was named the first chief counselor for privacy by president
> Clinton, will begin in his new position next week.
>
>
> Original URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990305S0013
>
> Added: Mon  Mar  0 8:0:0 14:4 1999
> Contributed by: Keeffee

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Robert A. Hettinga 
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism 
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'

Re: references to password sniffer incident

[Greg Rose]

Thanks for the good pointers that a number of people gave. The particular
incident I remembered was the BARRnet one 
  http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1993_4/0032.html
(thanks Dan Riley).

I had no idea there had been so many, so well hushed up! MILNET, JANET (4
independent incidents in the UK in Q3 1995 alone), Panix and other ISPs,
several universities, the USENIX terminal room, ...

Some other URLs:
  http://email.tqn.com/library/nus/bl110498-3.htm 
  http://www.chips.navy.mil/chips/archives/94_jul/file14.html
  http://www.nic.mil/ftp/mgt/bul-9402.txt

I was also reminded of a paper by Nathaniel Borenstein and others at First
Virtual, about sniffing (network and keyboard) for credit card numbers
using the check digit to identify them. I haven't found the actual paper,
but it was a precursor to:
  http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.96.01.25-96.01.31/msg00618.html

thanks
Greg.

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