July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Greek cellular wiretapping scandal
by Alexander Philippou 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> From a non-technical perspective, at least one death may be > linked to the incident. A communications expert who was working on the > switch apparently commited suicide, but this has been > questioned by some. It was recently concluded that there was no foul play involved in his tragic death. The arguments are convincing enough. However, it has not been concluded yet if he was somehow involved in or had knowledge about the wiretapping, and whether this might have been a factor in his suicide. > were in contact via phone calls and text messages with various > overseas destinations, namely the U.S., including Laurel, Md., the <snip> > Guess what's just to the east of Laurel, MD... On the other > hand, exposing links like that is clumsy -- could it be > disinformation? Yes, it might have been clumsy operation-wise. Clumsiness was involved in last year's incident in Italy: "it was a trail of casual cellphone use that tripped up the 19 purported CIA operatives wanted by Italian authorities in the alleged kidnapping of a radical Muslim cleric". http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/28/cia.phonetrail.ap/. On the other hand, no publicly available information has linked the locations of the phones involved in the Greek wiretapping with foreign agencies. Various opinions have been voiced on who might be behind this affair, but no accusations have been made against the US or any other government. > And one of the phones monitored was from the > American embassy in Athens -- or is that the disinformation? > Or is NSA spying on the embassy? You are in a maze of twisty > little spooks, all different. "One telephone was listed to an inconspicuous Greek-American at the US Embassy. Journalists learned the phone had been lent to the embassy's Greek police security detail." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060320/kiesling > The attack was very sophisticated, and required a great deal > of arcane knowledge. Whoever did it had detailed knowledge > of Ericsson switches, and probably a test lab with the proper > Ericsson gear. It strongly suggests that Ericsson and/or > Vodafone insiders were involved -- my guess is both. But who > did it, and why, remains obscure. The investigation is still ongoing. It will be interesting to read the final report. Alexander Philippou --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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Call for Participation: FC 2008
by Perry E. Metzger 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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Re: The Skype begin refusing payments making on their site through the Tor
by Roger Dingledine 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:02:40AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > For something like skype or paying for ANYTHING via credit card/paypal >or the like, your anonymity is lost upon making payment so having to pay >online outside the tor network cannot be a privacy/anonymity violation. > > I would never use tor to make privacy/anonymity breaking payments or >enter anonymity breaking information - it totally negates the function >or point of tor in the first place. Basically, I'm not sure that being >blocked from making a payment to a company over the tor network is really >a problem at all. > > Am I missing something? You're missing the diversity of adversaries that various Tor users might care about. For example, imagine you're using Tor to prevent a local observer (e.g. your government-owned ISP) from discovering that you're going to Skype's payment page. More generally, there are people who use Tor to ssh to a server somewhere -- they really do want to make sure the ssh server is the one they wanted, and the ssh server really does want to make sure it's them, but they worry about network-level observers on both sides of the transaction. Yet another variation is where you don't mind that Skype knows *who* you are, but you don't want them to know which country you're in today. --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo(a)torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: The Skype begin refusing payments making on their site through the Tor
by Roger Dingledine 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:02:40AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > For something like skype or paying for ANYTHING via credit card/paypal >or the like, your anonymity is lost upon making payment so having to pay >online outside the tor network cannot be a privacy/anonymity violation. > > I would never use tor to make privacy/anonymity breaking payments or >enter anonymity breaking information - it totally negates the function >or point of tor in the first place. Basically, I'm not sure that being >blocked from making a payment to a company over the tor network is really >a problem at all. > > Am I missing something? You're missing the diversity of adversaries that various Tor users might care about. For example, imagine you're using Tor to prevent a local observer (e.g. your government-owned ISP) from discovering that you're going to Skype's payment page. More generally, there are people who use Tor to ssh to a server somewhere -- they really do want to make sure the ssh server is the one they wanted, and the ssh server really does want to make sure it's them, but they worry about network-level observers on both sides of the transaction. Yet another variation is where you don't mind that Skype knows *who* you are, but you don't want them to know which country you're in today. --Roger *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majordomo(a)torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[liberationtech] Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age
by Moritz Bartl 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Accession Number : ADA537560 Title : Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age Descriptive Note : Journal article Corporate Author : AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL STRATEGIC STUDIES QUARTERLY Personal Author(s) : Demchak, Chris C. ; Dombrowski, Peter Report Date : 2011 Pagination or Media Count : 31 Abstract : No frontier lasts forever, and no freely occupied global commons extends endlessly where human societies are involved. Sooner or later, good fences are erected to make good neighbors, and so it must be with cyberspace. Today we are seeing the beginnings of the border-making process across the world's nations. From the Chinese intent to create their own controlled internal Internet, to increasingly controlled access to the Internet in less-democratic states, to the rise of Internet filters and rules in Western democracies, states are establishing the bounds of their sovereign control in the virtual world in the name of security and economic sustainability. The topology of the Internet, like the prairie of the 1800s' American Midwest is about to be changed forever -rationally, conflictually, or collaterally- by the decisions of states. Descriptors : *NETWORK TOPOLOGY, *INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, *INTERNET, ECONOMICS, SOCIETIES, MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS, MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE, ONLINE SYSTEMS, ELECTRONIC SECURITY, CHINA, CYBERNETICS, COMPUTER VIRUSES, CLIENT SERVER SYSTEMS, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATIONS, MILITARY HISTORY, GLOBAL Subject Categories : GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL SCIENCE COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND STANDARDS CYBERNETICS HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING & MAN MACHINE SYSTEM Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=A… Download: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA537… -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: [tahoe-dev] switching from introducers to gossip?
by Brian 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 7/1/12 5:56 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote: > Is there any reason why you can't simply have multiple introducers, > which may have inconsistent views of the world, but which otherwise > function identically? Clients can use information gathered from all > introducers they're connected to in order to make connections to other > storage nodes. It seems like all that's really missing is a system to > construct the union of the available storage nodes as enumerated by > multiple introducers. That's doable (it's basically what the #68 Google Summer of Code project produced), and it would be more robust than the current one-lone-Introducer (and we need the "union of announcements" feature in any case). But it wouldn't decrease the administrative burden.. in fact it would be worse than a single introducer. Imagine a grid that has two Introducers and everybody knows about both of them (I1 and I2). Now the operator of one (I1) of them announces that they're going to retire it, so somebody (I3) else volunteers to add a replacement. We'll start with I1+I2, then have I1+I2+I3, then finish with I2+I3. With the #68-GSoC -style "introducer.furls", after the volunteer spins up I3, everybody in the entire grid has to edit their configs to add I3's new FURL. With gossip, the volunteer adds I3 and then they're done. Everyone else learns about I3 from I1/I2, then remembers I3, and connects to it even though I1 is gone. If you generalize this, then all nodes can function as introducers, and there's no need for dedicated Introducer nodes. As long as at least one node with a public IP is up at any given time, everybody else can learn the current state of the world. cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev(a)tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[ias-opportunities] Call for Participation: FC 2008 -
by Radu Sion 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Cozumel, Mexico, January 28-31, 2008 [Free Child Care, Free for children 1-12] To: ias-opportunities(a)cerias.purdue.edu Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:47:04 -0500 Reply-To: Radu Sion <sion(a)crypto.cs.sunysb.edu> Dear Colleague, This is a call for participation to the Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference in Cozumel, Mexico, 28-31 January, 2008 (http://fc08.ifca.ai) Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance in the context of finance and commerce. The conference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems. For more details including accepted papers and invited speakers, please see http://fc08.ifca.ai. Free Child Care We are happy to offer free child care as part of the conference. The hotel offers a kids' club, with supervised childcare and activities from 9am to 5pm for children of age 5-12 whose parents are somewhere on the premises (in the conference room is fine). This is free of charge for hotel guests. Baby-sitting is available for US$5 per child per hour. Additionally, as part of the room rate for conference attendees, children of age 0-12 are free of charge (including food). We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. We did our best to avoid this. Moreover, please let us know asap if you would like to be removed from this mailing list -- we would not like you to perceive this as spam. Please help us distribute this to other interested colleagues. Best Regards, Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2008 Organizers --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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RE: Greek cellular wiretapping scandal
by Alexander Philippou 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> From a non-technical perspective, at least one death may be > linked to the incident. A communications expert who was working on the > switch apparently commited suicide, but this has been > questioned by some. It was recently concluded that there was no foul play involved in his tragic death. The arguments are convincing enough. However, it has not been concluded yet if he was somehow involved in or had knowledge about the wiretapping, and whether this might have been a factor in his suicide. > were in contact via phone calls and text messages with various > overseas destinations, namely the U.S., including Laurel, Md., the <snip> > Guess what's just to the east of Laurel, MD... On the other > hand, exposing links like that is clumsy -- could it be > disinformation? Yes, it might have been clumsy operation-wise. Clumsiness was involved in last year's incident in Italy: "it was a trail of casual cellphone use that tripped up the 19 purported CIA operatives wanted by Italian authorities in the alleged kidnapping of a radical Muslim cleric". http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/28/cia.phonetrail.ap/. On the other hand, no publicly available information has linked the locations of the phones involved in the Greek wiretapping with foreign agencies. Various opinions have been voiced on who might be behind this affair, but no accusations have been made against the US or any other government. > And one of the phones monitored was from the > American embassy in Athens -- or is that the disinformation? > Or is NSA spying on the embassy? You are in a maze of twisty > little spooks, all different. "One telephone was listed to an inconspicuous Greek-American at the US Embassy. Journalists learned the phone had been lent to the embassy's Greek police security detail." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060320/kiesling > The attack was very sophisticated, and required a great deal > of arcane knowledge. Whoever did it had detailed knowledge > of Ericsson switches, and probably a test lab with the proper > Ericsson gear. It strongly suggests that Ericsson and/or > Vodafone insiders were involved -- my guess is both. But who > did it, and why, remains obscure. The investigation is still ongoing. It will be interesting to read the final report. Alexander Philippou --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[liberationtech] Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age
by Moritz Bartl 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Accession Number : ADA537560 Title : Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age Descriptive Note : Journal article Corporate Author : AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL STRATEGIC STUDIES QUARTERLY Personal Author(s) : Demchak, Chris C. ; Dombrowski, Peter Report Date : 2011 Pagination or Media Count : 31 Abstract : No frontier lasts forever, and no freely occupied global commons extends endlessly where human societies are involved. Sooner or later, good fences are erected to make good neighbors, and so it must be with cyberspace. Today we are seeing the beginnings of the border-making process across the world's nations. From the Chinese intent to create their own controlled internal Internet, to increasingly controlled access to the Internet in less-democratic states, to the rise of Internet filters and rules in Western democracies, states are establishing the bounds of their sovereign control in the virtual world in the name of security and economic sustainability. The topology of the Internet, like the prairie of the 1800s' American Midwest is about to be changed forever -rationally, conflictually, or collaterally- by the decisions of states. Descriptors : *NETWORK TOPOLOGY, *INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, *INTERNET, ECONOMICS, SOCIETIES, MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS, MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE, ONLINE SYSTEMS, ELECTRONIC SECURITY, CHINA, CYBERNETICS, COMPUTER VIRUSES, CLIENT SERVER SYSTEMS, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATIONS, MILITARY HISTORY, GLOBAL Subject Categories : GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL SCIENCE COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND STANDARDS CYBERNETICS HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING & MAN MACHINE SYSTEM Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=A… Download: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA537… -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Final announcement for ECC 2003
by ECC 2003 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

--------------------------------------------------------------------- THE 7TH WORKSHOP ON ELLIPTIC CURVE CRYPTOGRAPHY (ECC 2003) University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada August 11, 12 & 13 2003 FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT July 19, 2003 ********************************************************************* NOTES: 1) Please note that the deadline for registration is August 1. 2) The last lecture at ECC 2003 will end at 3:00 pm on Wednesday (Aug 13). This will give participants sufficient time to catch flights scheduled to leave Toronto after 7:00 pm. There are hourly flights from Toronto to Ottawa for those who wish to attend SAC 2003. 3) If you would like to be removed from this mailing list please reply with a brief note. You will be immediately removed from the list. ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* ECC 2003 is the seventh in a series of annual workshops dedicated to the study of elliptic curve cryptography and related areas. The main themes of ECC 2003 will be: - The discrete logarithm problem. - Efficient parameter generation and point counting. - Provably secure cryptographic protocols. - Efficient software and hardware implementation. - Side-channel attacks. - Deployment of elliptic curve cryptography. It is hoped that the meeting will continue to encourage and stimulate further research on the security and implementation of elliptic curve cryptosystems and related areas, and encourage collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers in the academic, industry and government sectors. Attendees of ECC 2003 might also wish to attend SAC 2003 (Ottawa, Aug 14-15) and CRYPTO 2003 (Santa Barbara, Aug 17-21). The last lecture at ECC 2003 will end at 3:00 pm on Wednesday (Aug 13). This will give participants sufficient time to catch flights scheduled to leave Toronto after 7:00 pm. There are hourly flights from Toronto to Ottawa. SPONSORS: Certicom Corp. MITACS Motorola The Fields Institute University of Essen University of Waterloo ORGANIZERS: Gerhard Frey (University of Essen) Darrel Hankerson (Auburn University) Alfred Menezes (University of Waterloo) Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum) Edlyn Teske (University of Waterloo) Scott Vanstone (University of Waterloo) SPEAKERS: Hans Dobbertin (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) Florian Hess (University of Bristol, UK) Hugo Krawczyk (Technion, Israel, and IBM Research, USA) Tanja Lange (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) Reynald Lercier (Centre d'Electronique de L'Armement, France) Ben Lynn (Stanford University, USA) William Martin (National Security Agency, USA) Christof Paar (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany) John Proos (University of Waterloo, Canada) Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Pankaj Rohatgi (IBM Research, USA) Victor Shoup (New York University, USA) Jerome A. Solinas (National Security Agency, USA) Edlyn Teske (University of Waterloo, Canada) Nicolas Theriault (University of Toronto, Canada) Eran Tromer (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: All lectures will take place in Room 1302 of the Davis Center, University of Waterloo ==================== Monday, August 11 ==================== 8:00 - 9:00 am: Coffee and registration 9:00 - 10:00 am: William Martin: High confidence software and systems, an NSA perspective 10:00 - 10:30 am: Mid-morning coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 am: Hans Dobbertin: To be announced 11:30 - 12:30 pm: Eran Tromer: Hardware-based implementation of factoring algorithms 12:30 - 2:00 pm: lunch 2:00 - 3:00 pm: Hugo Krawczyk: Design and analysis of authenticated Diffie-Hellman protocols 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Victor Shoup: Practical verifiable encryption and decryption of discrete logarithms 4:00 - 4:30 pm: Afternoon coffee break 4:30 - 5:30 pm: Pankaj Rohatgi: Power, EM and all that: Is your crypto device really secure? 6:00 pm: Reception at the Waterloo Inn 7:00 pm: Banquet at the Waterloo Inn ===================== Tuesday, August 12 ===================== 8:00 - 9:00 am: Morning coffee 9:00 - 10:00 am: Jean-Jacques Quisquater: 2 or 3 side-channels for ECC 10:00 - 10:30 am: Mid-morning coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 am: Tanja Lange: Efficient arithmetic on (hyper-)elliptic curves over finite fields 11:30 - 12:30 pm: Christof Paar: Hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems for embedded applications 12:30 - 2:00 pm: lunch 2:00 - 3:00 pm: Reynald Lercier: Algorithmic aspects of Mestre's p-adic point counting ideas 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Ben Lynn: Applications of bilinear maps 4:00 - 4:30 pm: Afternoon coffee break 4:30 - 5:30 pm: Jerome A. Solinas: ID-based digital signature algorithms 5:30 - 7:00 pm: Cocktail Reception (Davis Centre, University of Waterloo) ======================= Wednesday, August 13 ======================= 8:00 - 9:00 am: Morning coffee 9:00 - 10:00 am: John Proos: Security in the presence of decryption failures 10:00 - 10:30 am: Mid-morning coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 am: Nicolas Theriault: Index calculus attack for hyperelliptic curves of small genus 11:30 - 1:00 pm: lunch 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Florian Hess: The GHS attack revisited 2:00 - 3:00 pm: Edlyn Teske: Weak fields for ECC REGISTRATION: There will be a registration fee this year of $250 Cdn or $170 US ($150 Cdn or $100 US for full-time graduate students). Sorry, but we cannot accept payment in Euros. PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AS SPACE IS LIMITED FOR THIS WORKSHOP; REGISTRATION IS ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE BASIS. We cannot process a registration until all fees are paid in full. The deadline for all fees to be paid and registration completed has been set for the 1st of August, 2003. However, you are encouraged to register earlier than Aug 1 since some hotels have a cutoff date of June 29. To register, complete, in full, the attached REGISTRATION FORM and return it along with your payment to: Mrs. Adrienne Richter, C&O Dept., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. You can also send your registration form by fax (519-725-5441) or by email (ecc2003(a)math.uwaterloo.ca) Confirmation of your registration will be sent by email when payment is received in full. ------------------------cut from here--------------------------------- ECC 2003 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Fullname: _________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ E-Mail Address: _________________________________________________________ Telephone #: _________________________________________________________ Registration Fee: Please check the appropriate box: [ ] Registration .......$250.00 CAD ..............$________ [ ] Registration .......$170.00 USD ..............$________ [ ] Full-time Student ..$150.00 CAD ..............$________ [ ] Full-time Student ..$100.00 USD ..............$________ Registration Fee includes Banquet: Attending [ ] Yes [ ] No Vegetarian [ ] Yes [ ] No TOTAL AMOUNT PAYABLE: ............................$________ **Make Cheque/Money Order Payable to: ECC 2003 Credit Card Payments: [ ] Visa [ ] MasterCard Cardholder's Name: ________________________________________________ Card Number: ______________________________________________________ Expiration Date: __________________________________________________ Signature: ________________________________________________________ Additional Information: ___________________________________________ -------------------------cut from here------------------------------- TRAVEL: Kitchener-Waterloo is approximately 100 km/60 miles from Pearson International Airport in Toronto. Ground transportation to Kitchener-Waterloo can be pre-arranged with Airways Transit. TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM TORONTO AIRPORT PROVIDED BY AIRWAYS TRANSIT It is advisable to book your transportation between the Pearson Airport, Toronto, and Waterloo in advance to receive the advance booking rate of $38 CAD per person, one way, with Airways Transit (open 24 hours a day). Please quote "ECC2003" when making your reservation. Airways is a door-to-door service; they accept cash (Cdn or US funds), MasterCard, Visa and American Express. Upon arrival: Terminal 1: proceed to Ground Transportation Booth, Arrivals Level. Terminal 2: proceed to Airways Transit desk, Arrivals Level, Area E. Terminal 3: proceed to Ground Transportation Booth, Arrivals Level, between Doors B and C. You can make a reservation through their web site: www.airwaystransit.com Or, you can complete the form below and send by mail or fax (519-886-2141) well in advance of your arrival to Airways Transit. They will not fax confirmations: your fax transmission record is confirmation of your reservation. -------------------------cut from here--------------------------------- AIRWAYS TRANSIT ADVANCE BOOKING FORM - ECC 2003 ARRIVAL INFORMATION: ____________________________________________________________ Surname First name ____________________________________________________________ Toronto Arrival Date Airline Flight # ____________________________________________________________ Arrival Time Arriving From ____________________________________________________________ Destination in Kitchener/Waterloo No. in party DEPARTURE INFORMATION: ____________________________________________________________ Surname First name ____________________________________________________________ Toronto Departure Date Airline Flight # ____________________________________________________________ Departure Time Flight # Destination ____________________________________________________________ Pickup From No. in party ____________________________________________________________ Signature Date Send or Fax to: Airways Transit 99A Northland Road Waterloo, Ontario Canada, N2V 1Y8 Fax: (519) 886-2141 Telephone: (519) 886-2121 -----------------------------cut form here-------------------------------- ACCOMMODATIONS: There is a limited block of rooms set aside on a first-come first-serve basis at the Waterloo Inn for the evenings of August 10, 11, 12 and 13, and at the Comfort Inn for the evenings of August 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. Please note that the Waterloo Inn is sold out for the evening of August 9. COMFORT INN Address: 190 Weber Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 3H4 Phone: (519) 747-9400 Rate: $80 Cdn plus taxes/night for a single or double room Please quote "ECC 2003" when making your reservation Availability: Evenings of August 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Cut-off date: July 7, 2003 WATERLOO INN Address: 475 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2Z5 Phone: (519) 884-0222 Fax: (519) 884-0321 Toll Free: 1-800-361-4708 Website: www.waterlooinn.com Rate: $118 Cdn plus taxes/night for a single or double room Please quote "ECC 2003" when making your reservation Availability: Evenings of August 10, 11, 12, 13 Cut-off date: June 29, 2003 Other hotels close to the University of Waterloo are: UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CONFERENCE CENTRE (on-campus accommodation; no air conditioning) Ron Eydt Village, Box 16610, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N3J 4C1 Phone: 519-884-5400, 519-746-7599 Website: www.conferences.uwaterloo.ca (see "Room Registration") Approx rate: $52 Cdn plus taxes/night DESTINATION INN 547 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 5Z7 Phone: (519) 884-0100 Website: www.destinationinn.com Approx rate: $73 Cdn plus taxes/night BEST WESTERN INN St. Jacobs Country Inn 50 Benjamin Road East, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2V 2J9 Phone: (519) 884-9295 Website: www.stjacobscountryinn.com Approx rate: $129 Cdn plus taxes/night THE WATERLOO HOTEL 2 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2W7 Phone: (519) 885-2626 Website: www.countryinns.org/inn_waterloo.html Approx rate: $120-160 Cdn plus taxes/night HOTEL TO CONFERENCE TRANSPORTATION: A shuttle to/from the campus will be available each day of the conference from the Waterloo Inn and Comfort Inn only. Place and times for pickup and drop-off will be emailed to registrants a week before the workshop. FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information or to return your Registration, please contact: Mrs. Adrienne Richter Department of Combinatorics & Optimization University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 e-mail: ecc2003(a)math.uwaterloo.ca Fax: (519) 725-5441 Phone: (519) 888-4027 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> 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'

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