Does anybody know anything about a new company named "First Virtual"? I know they got NSB from BellCore and a couple of other researchers.
nsb will be giving an invited talk at the winter '95 usenix conference in new orleans. Speaker: Nathanial Borenstein Affiliation: First Virtual Abstract: Traditional approaches to introducing commerce to the Internet focus on using the Internet to facilitate the sale of goods and services. However, these approaches require either encryption or a closed system in order to safeguard payment. By restricting our focus to information commerce -- transactions not involving physical goods or service -- we can radically simplify the underlying commerce model, with extremely important consequences for the usability and democracy of the Internet's payment infrastructure. http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/honey/usenix.html has general info on the winter '95 usenix conference. peter