--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: Christof Paar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WPI.Crypto.Seminar":; Subject: WPI Cryptoseminar, Thursday, March 11 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Christof Paar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 SSL is widely used and is about to be superseded by Transport Layer Security (TLS) proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. MAILING LIST: If you want to be added to the mailing list and receive talk announcements together with abstracts, please send me a short mail. Likewise, if you want to be removed from the list, just send me a short mail. Regards, Christof Paar >>> WORKSHOP ON CRYPTOGRAPHIC HARDWARE AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (CHES) <<< >>> WPI, August 12 & 13, 1999 <<< >>> check http://ece.wpi.edu/Research/crypt/ches <<< *********************************************************************** Christof Paar, Assistant Professor Cryptography and Information Security (CRIS) Group ECE Dept., WPI, 100 Institute Rd., Worcester, MA 01609, USA fon: (508) 831 5061 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (508) 831 5491 www: http://ee.wpi.edu/People/faculty/cxp.html *********************************************************************** For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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'