Financial Cryptography '99 February 22-25, 1999, Anguilla, BWI Preliminary Conference Program FC99, the third international conference on financial data security and digital commerce, will be held in Anguilla, British West Indies. FC99 aims to bring together persons involved in both the financial and data security fields to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas. The conference is organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA). PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM Monday 22 February Session 1: Electronic Commerce Experimenting with electronic commerce on the PalmPilot Neil Daswani, Dan Boneh (Stanford, U.S.A.) Blinding of credit card numbers in the SET protocol Hugo Krawczyk (Technion, Israel) Session 2: Anonymity Control Trustee tokens: Simple and practical anonymous digital coin tracing Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, U.S.A.) A new approach for anonymity control in electronic cash systems Tomas Sander, Amnon Ta-Shma (ICSI, U.S.A.) Session 3: Fraud Management E-cash systems with randomized audit Yacov Yacobi (Microsoft Research, U.S.A.) Assessment of counterfeit transaction detection systems for smart card based ecash Kazuo Ezawa, Gregory Napiorkowski, Mariusz Kossarski (Mondex International, U.S.A.) Tuesday 23 February Session 4: Invited Speaker Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Session 5: Public-Key Certificates Reasoning about public-key certification: On bindings between entities and public keys Reto Kohlas, Ueli Maurer (ETH, Switzerland) Online certificate status checking in financial transactions: The case for re-issuance Barbara Fox, Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft, U.S.A.) Online certificate checking: One year later Panel discussion led by Michael Myers (VeriSign, U.S.A.) Wednesday 24 February Session 6: Steganography Playing `hide and seek' with stored keys Adi Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Israel), Nicko van Someren (nCipher, England) On channel capacity and modulation in watermarking of digital still images Markus Breitbach, Hideki Imai (University of Tokyo, Japan) Session 7: Content Distribution Towards making broadcast encryption practical Michel Abdalla (U.C. San Diego), Yuval Shavitt and Avishai Wool (Bell Labs, U.S.A.) Conditional access concepts and principles David Kravitz and David Goldschlag (Divx, U.S.A.) Fair use, intellectual property, and the information economy Panel discussion led by Joan Feigenbaum (AT&T Labs, U.S.A.) Thursday 25 February Session 8: Anonymity Mechanisms Anonymous authentication of membership in dynamic groups Stuart Schecter (Harvard), Todd Parnell, Alexander Hartemink (MIT, U.S.A.) Some open issues and new directions in group signatures Giuseppe Ateniese (Universita di Genova, Italy), Gene Tsudik (USC ISI, U.S.A.) Session 9: Auctions and Markets Anonymous investing: Hiding the identities of stockholders Philip MacKenzie (Bell Labs, U.S.A.), Jeffrey Sorensen (IBM Research, U.S.A.) Fair on-line auctions without special trusted parties Stuart Stubblebine (AT&T Labs, U.S.A.), Paul Syverson (Naval Research Lab, U.S.A.) Session 10: Distributed Cryptography "Dynamic Fault"-robust cryptosystems meet organizational needs for dynamic control Yair Frankel and Moti Yung (CertCo, U.S.A.) Improved magic ink signatures using hints Markus Jakobsson (Bell Labs, U.S.A.), Joy Muller (Gutenberg University, Germany) RUMP SESSION In addition to the regular conference program, a rump session will be held on the evening of Tuesday 23 February to provide an opportunity for less formal presentations. Although the rump session will be organized during the conference itself, advance proposals may be submitted by email. Rump session contributions will not appear in the conference proceedings. Send rump session contributions to: Matt Blaze email: mab@research.att.com EXHIBITION An exhibition will be held in conjunction with the technical program, with product displays, demonstrations, and presentations of a business-oriented nature. Scientific sessions are primarily scheduled for the mornings and exhibition sessions for the afternoons. CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held at Chandeliers, the conference facility of the InterIsland Hotel, which is on Road Bay, near Sandy Ground Village, in the South Hill section of Anguilla. The conference will have TCP/IP internet access. Shuttle service between the conference and the Mariners hotel will be available. REGISTRATION Registration can be done via the web at URL http://fc99.ai/. The fee for the conference, which covers all conference materials and events (including preproceedings, final proceedings, attendance at scientific sessions, and breakfast and lunch each day of the conference), is: $850 regular registration $350 academic registration $150 student registration An additional $50 fee applies to registrations for which payment is received after January 1, 1999. A $100 discount ($50 for academic and student registrations) is available to participants who pay their registration fee by electronic money. Payment may be made by credit card, bank transfer, electronic money, or cash. STIPENDS A limited number of stipends to help defray the costs of attendance may be available to full-time students with a paper accepted for presentation at the conference. If you would like to apply for a stipend, please contact the General Chair at the email address listed below. HOTEL ACCOMODATION The conference hotel is not recommended except to those seeking budget accomodations. The recommended hotel is Mariners, where a block reservation has been made. To reserve a room, please call the hotel at +1 (809) 497-2671 and mention that you will be attending FC99. Information about other hotels is available at URL http://fc99.ai. WELCOME RECEPTION A welcome reception will be held from 6:30pm to 8:00pm on Monday, February 22, 1999, the evening of the first day of the conference. GENERAL INFORMATION Visas Visas are not required for citizens of most American and European countries. If you are uncertain about whether you need a visa, contact the local British consulate for information. Getting to Anguilla
From North America, Anguilla is usually reached via San Juan (Puerto Rico). From Europe, the best connections are via St. Maarten/St. Martin (from Amsterdam or Paris), or Antigua (from London). St. Martin is very close to Anguilla and is connected by ferry as well as by plane.
Local Transportation The simplest way to get around Anguilla is to rent a car. You will need to buy an Anguilla drivers license, but this is a formality. Taxis are also available. Another possibility is to hitch rides from local residents, who are eager to provide them and will often stop to offer rides unsolicited. Transportation will be provided at specific times between Mariners and the InterIsland hotel. Weather Expect temperatures in the 20's or 30's Celsius, 70's or 80's Fahrenheit. There is often a strong wind, with cloudbursts that quickly blow over. Dress code for the conference is shorts and T-shirt. Money The local currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (EC$), with an exchange rate of approximately EC$2.7/US$1, but many goods and services in Anguilla, particularly those aimed primarily at tourists (such as restaurants and hotels) are priced in US dollars. US dollars are freely tradable everywhere on the island, so there is no need to obtain EC dollars before arrival. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs Yair Frankel, CertCo Matthew Franklin, Xerox PARC David Goldschlag, Divx Markus Jakobsson, Bell Labs Ari Juels, RSA Labs Arjen Lenstra, Citibank Clifford Neuman, Univ. Southern California Berry Schoenmakers, Digicash Jacques Stern, ENS Yacov Yacobi, Microsoft Bennet Yee, U.C. San Diego Program Chair: Matthew Franklin email: franklin@parc.xerox.com ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Rafael Hirschfeld email: ray@unipay.nl Local Arrangements Chair: Vincent Cate email: vince@offshore.ai SPONSORS FC99 is sponsored by: nCipher Corporation <http://www.ncipher.com> e-gold Transnational <http://www.e-gold.com> Hansa Bank & Trust Company <http://www.hansa.net/> Offshore Information Services <http://offshore.ai/> If you are interested in sponsoring FC99, please contact the General Chair at the email address listed above. For further information, please see the main FC99 conference web page at URL http://fc99.ai/.