Schedule

Financial Cryptography '00 Conference Schedule

Sunday, February 20
Monday, February 21
Tuesday, February 22
Wednesday, February 23
Thursday, February 24

(schedule updated on February 18, 2000)

Sunday, February 20

1600-2000  Registration and Reception

    Sonesta Conference Boardroom
    Sponsored by Xcert
    Register early and mingle! Drinks and light snacks will be served.

Monday, February 21

0800-0900  Registration

0830-0900  Breakfast

0900-0910  Opening Remarks

0910-1000  Digital Rights Management (Chair: Yair Frankel)

    Efficient Trace and Revoke Schemes
    Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

    Efficient Watermark Detection and Collusion Security
    Francis Zane (Lucent, USA)

1000-1050  Invited Speaker (Chair: Joan Feigenbaum)

    Toward a More Sensible Way of Regulating the Circumvention of Technical Protection Systems.
    Pam Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

1050-1115  Coffee Break

1115-1230  Payment Systems (Chair: Stuart Haber)

    Self-Escrowed Cash Against User Blackmailing
    Birgit Pfitzmann and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (University of Saarland, Germany)

    Blind, Auditable Membership Proofs
    Tomas Sander (InterTrust, USA), Amnon Ta-Shma (International Computer Science Institute) and Moti Yung (CertCo, USA)

    Private Selective Payment Protocols
    Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia Technologies, USA)

1230-1255  Financial Cryptography Tools (Chair: Stuart Haber)

    Sharing Decryption in the Context of Voting or Lotteries
    Pierre-Alain Fouque, Guillaume Poupard and Jacques Stern (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

1300-1400  Lunch

1400-1530  Exhibition Session

    Cool Privacy Technologies
    Adam Shostak, Ian Goldberg (Zero Knowledge Systems)

1800-2000  Welcome Reception

Poolside at the Sonesta
Sponsored by Hansa and nCipher

Tuesday, February 22

0830-0900  Breakfast

0900-0950  Electronic Postcards (Chair: Dan Boneh)

    Postal Revenue Collection in the Digital Age
    Leon A. Pintsov (Pitney Bowes, USA) and Scott A. Vanstone (University of Waterloo & Certicom, Canada)

    Signing on a Postcard
    David Naccache (Gemplus Card International, France) and Jacques Stern (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

0950-1045  Panel I (Moderator: Moti Yung)

    Payment Systems: The Next Generation
    Shannon Byrne (Paradata, Canada)
    Greg Napiorkowski (Mondex, International)
    Max Levchin (Confinity, USA)
    David Farago (Ecash, USA)
    Charles Evans (E-Gold, USA)

1045-1115  Coffee Break

1115-1255  Abuses of Systems (Chair: Paul Syverson)

    Non-Repudiation in SET: Open Issues
    Els Van Herreweghen (IBM Zurich, Switzerland)

    Statistics and Secret Leakage
    Jean-Sebastien Coron (Ecole Normale Superieure, France), Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, USA) and David Naccache (Gemplus Card International, France)

    Analysis of Abuse-Free Contract Signing
    Vitaly Shmatikov and John C. Mitchell (Stanford University, USA)

    Asymmetric Currency Rounding
    David M'Raihi, David Naccache and Michael Tunstall (Gemplus Card International, France)

1300-1400  Lunch

1400-1530  Exhibition Session

    Research at Telcordia Technologies
    Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia)

    Challenges in Digital Rights Management
    Andrew Wright (InterTrust)

    TBA
    Pat Richards (Xcert)

2100-2300  Rump Session

    Chandeliers (InterIsland Hotel)
    Sponsored by e-gold

Wednesday, February 23

0830-0900  Breakfast

0900-1015  Financial Cryptography Policies and Issues (Chair: Win Treese)

    The Encryption Debate in Plaintext: National Security and Encryption in Israel and the United States
    Barak Jolish (Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft, USA)

    Critical Comments on the European Directive on a Common Framework for Electronic Signatures and Certification Service Providers
    Apollonia Martinez-Nadal, J.L. Ferrer-Gomila (University of Balearic Islands, Spain)

    A Response to "Can we eliminate certificate revocation lists?"
    Patrick McDaniel (University of Michigan, USA) and Avi Rubin (AT&T Labs, USA)

1015-1040  Coffee Break

1040-1130  Invited Speaker (Chair: Yair Frankel)

    In Search of the Killer App
     Kevin McCurley (IBM Almaden, USA)

1130-1145  Break

1145-1300  Anonymity (Chair: Nicko Van Someren)

    Self-Scrambling Anonymizers
    David Pointcheval (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

    Authentic Attributes with Fine-Grained Anonymity Protection
    Stuart G. Stubblebine (CertCo, USA) and Paul F. Syverson (Naval Research Lab, USA)

    Resource Efficient Anonymous Group Identification
    Ben Handley

1300-1400  Lunch

1400-1530  Exhibition Session

    Future Directions for nCipher Hardware Security Modules
    Nicko van Someren (nCipher)

    The Basis of Secure, Private, Worldwide Payment Systems
    Charles Evans (e-gold)

1700-????  Beach Barbecue

    The Dune
    Sponsored by InterTrust and Telcordia

Thursday, February 24

0830-0900  Breakfast

0900-0925  Financial Cryptography Tools (Chair: Stuart Stubblebine)

    Secret Key Authentication with Software-Only Verification
    Jaap-Henk Hoepman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

0925-1025  Panel II (Moderators: Barb Fox, Brian LaMacchia)

    Public Key Infrastructure: PKIX, Signed XML or Something Else?

    Carl Ellison (Intel Architecture Labs, USA)
    Caelen King (Baltimore Technologies, Ireland)
    Patrick Richard (Xcert, USA)
    Ron Rivest (MIT, USA)

1025-1055  Coffee Break

1055-1145  System Architectures (Chair: Giovanni Di Crescenzo)

    Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers
    Ian Grigg (Systemics)

    Capability-Based Financial Instruments
    Mark S. Miller (ERights.org), Bill Franz and Chip Morningstar (Communities.com, USA)

1145-1200  Closing Remarks

1200-1300  IFCA General Meeting

1300-1400  Lunch

1400-1500  Exhibition Session

Getting Big Bandwidth to a Small Island
Vincent Cate (Offshore Information Systems)

HushMail: User-Friendly Crypto
Brendon Wilson (Hush)

2000-????  HFH Party

    HFH Villa
    Sponsored by Zero Knowledge Systems

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