Call for Participants: The Financial Cryptography 1997 Workshopfor Senior Managers and IS Professionals

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS The Financial Cryptography 1997 (FC97) Workshop for Senior Managers and IS Professionals February 17-21, 1997 The InterIsland Hotel Anguilla, BWI http://www.offshore.com.ai./fc97/ Workshop Update: January 29, 1997 FC97 is sponsored by: The Journal for Internet Banking and Commerce http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/JIBC/ Offshore Information Services http://www.offshore.com.ai/ e$ http://www.vmeng.com/rah/ C2NET http://www.c2.net/ See Your Name Here! FC97 Workshop for Senior Managers and IS Professionals February 17-21, 1997 FC97 Conference and Exhibition, February 24-28, 1997 The Inter-Island Hotel Anguilla, BWI Workshop and Conference Reservations: http://www.offshore.com.ai./fc97/ The world's first intensive financial cryptography workshop for senior managers and IS professionals will be held Monday through Friday, February 17-21 1997, from 9:00am to 6:00pm, at the Inter-Island Hotel on the Carribbean island of Anguilla. This workshop will be the prelude to the world's first peer-reviewed financial cryptography conference and commercial exhibition, Financial Cryptography 1997 (FC97), which will be held the following week, February 24-28, 1997. The goals of the combined workshop, conference and exhibition are: -- to give senior managers and IS professionals a solid understanding of the fundamentals of strong cryptgraphy as applied to financial operations on public networks, -- to provide a peer-reviewed forum for important research in financial cryptography and the effects it will have on society, and, -- to showcase the newest products in financial cryptography. Workshop and Conference participants are encouraged to bring their families, though Workshop participants should expect to be busy the first week. :-). The Workshop Ian Goldberg, the Workshop chair, has picked an outstanding team of instructors in financial cryptography and internet financial system security to teach the courses in this workshop. The Workshop will consist of 40 hours of intensive instruction and lab time over 5 days. Each student will have their own internet workstation, and the lab will be open 24 hours. The SSL internet commerce server used in the workshop will be Stronghold, developed by C2NET, of Berkeley, California. For information on Stronghold, please see http://www.c2.net/. Thanks to C2NET for their gracious donation of this outstanding software to the FC97 Workshop. Who Should Attend The Workshop is intended for senior IS managers and technical professionals who want to get completely up to speed on the design, development, and implementation of financial cryptography systems, the core technology of internet commerce. After the workshop, senior managers will have a hands-on understanding the strengths and liabilities of currently available financial cryptography and internet transaction security software and hardware, and thus be able to make better asset allocation decisions in this area of explosive technology growth. Senior technical professionals with strong IS experience will be able to implement those technologies and to pass on what they've learned to their clients and colleagues when they return home. The Workshop will be held in a casual but intensive atmosphere at the very cutting edge of financial technology on the internet. Someone has likened the experience to a financial cryptography bootcamp. At the end, Workshop attendees will be utterly conversant in cryptography as it applies to finance, and will be quite prepared for the technical papers in the FC97 conference the following week. Workshop participants will not only know what everyone else is doing now in internet commerce, but, more important, because they understand the implications of strong financial cryptography on ubiquitous public networks, they will be able to know what to do *next*. The Workshop Leader Ian Goldberg is a Ph.D. student in security and cryptography at the University of California, Berkeley. Just last night, he cracked RSA Data Security Inc.'s 40-bit challenge cipher in just under 3.5 hours. In late 1995, he discovered what became a much-publicized flaw in Netscape's implementation of SSL. He is a recognized expert in electronic payment systems, and in DigiCash's ecash digital bearer certificate protocol in particular. He has produced several ecash clients for Unix and Windows, as well as an ecash module for the Stronghold web server, which has extended the existing ecash system for better security, privacy, and ease-of-use. The Principal Instructors Gary Howland worked on digital cash systems for DigiCash, and then moved to Systemics, where he developed the SOX protocol, a flexible payments system currently in use in a bond trading environment, soon to be available to the public. He also developed the Cryptix and PGP libraries in Perl, and assisted on the Cryptix and PGP library implementations in Java. Adam Shostack is a security consultant based in the Boston area. He has extensive background in designing, implementing and testing secure systems for clients in the medical, computer, and financial industries. His recent public work includes 'Apparent Weaknesses in the Security Dynamics Client Server Protocol,' 'Source Code Review Guidelines,' and comparisons of freely available cryptographic libraries. His clients include Fidelity Investments and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston. Additional Instructors The Workshop will have student-to-instructor ratio of 5 to 1, not including the Workshop leader. The Workshop will have an initial enrollment of 10 students, and an additional instructor will be added for each 5 students up to a 25 student maximum enrollment. Workshop Topics The following is the complete list of topics that the workshop will cover: Security on the Internet Internet Protocols: IP, TCP, UDP Higher-level Protocols: Telnet, FTP, HTTP, SSL Solid Foundations for Cryptographic Systems A History of Internet Attacks Building Internet Firewalls Building a Bastion Host Turning your Bastion Host into a Web Server Non-internet Internet Security Cryptography The Need for Cryptography History of Cryptography Classical Methods Modern Methods Private and Public Key Cryptography Authentication vs. Security Certification and Public Key Infrastructures Cryptographic Protocols Engineering a Cryptographically Secure System Why Cryptography is Harder than it Looks Security Through Obscurity and How to Recognize Snake Oil Internet Payment Systems Payment models: coin-based, cheque-based, account-based Security Issues Privacy and Anonymity Issues Smartcards vs. Software Existing Payment Schemes Credit Cards First Virtual CyberCash DigiCash Forthcoming Payment Schemes SET Mondex Millicent micropayments Setting Up an ecash-Enabled Web Server Setting up the Web Server Signing up for ecash Installing the ecash Module Setting Prices Logging Advanced Methods ecashiers moneychangers The workshop has been covered by Wired Magazine, and FC97 was the featured conference in the January 1997 "Deductible Junkets" section. So, if you have already decided to come to the FC97 Workshop and Conference, please register and make your plane and hotel reservations as soon as possible. Workshop space is extremely limited. The price of the workshop is $5,000 U.S. You can pay for your FC97 workshop ticket with Visa or MasterCard, with ecash, or with any of a number of other internet commerce payment protocols, at the regstriation site: http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/. The workshop price includes meals (but not lodging) at the InterIsland Hotel and lab space, plus the delivery and installation of hardware, network access, internet commerce software, all to a location like Anguilla. And, of course, 40 hours of instruction and structured lab activity. We have priced the workshop to be competitive with other comprehensive business and professional technology workshops of similar total session length. In addition, the first 10 FC97 workshop participants will receive a 50% reduction in their FC97 Conference and Exhibition fee, for a savings of $500 off the $1,000 conference admission. You can register, and pay for, your workshop ticket at: http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/ Air Transportation and Hotels Air travel to Anguilla is typically done through San Juan, St. Thomas or St. Maarten/Martin. There are several non-stop flights a day from various US and European locations. Connection through to Anguilla can be made through American Eagle, or through LIAT, or in the case of St. Maarten, with a short ferry ride to Anguilla. See your travel agent for details. Anguilla's runway is 3600 feet, with a displaced threshold of 600 feet, and can accomodate business jets. Obviously, you should talk to your aviation staff for details about your own aircraft's capabilities in this regard. Anguilla import duties are not imposed on hardware or software which will leave the island again, so, as long as you take it with you when you leave, you won't pay import duties. PLEASE NOTE: Your FC97 Workshop fee only covers *meals* at the InterIsland Hotel. The InterIsland is actually a small guesthouse attached to a large conference facility, and so rooms there are in short supply. Fortunately, there are lots of small hotels and guesthouses nearby. For more information on these hotels, please see http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/ for more information. Other hotels on Anguilla range from spartan to luxurious, all within easy walking or driving distance of the Workshop at the InterIsland. More information about Anguillan hotels can be obtained from your travel agent, or at http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/. Registration and Information for Other FC97 Events To register and pay for your ticket to the FC97 conference itself, see: http://www.offshore.com.ai/fc97/ For information the selection of papers for the FC97 conference see: http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC97 If you're interested in Exhibition space, please contact Julie Rackliffe: mailto:rackliffe@tcm.org If you're interested in sponsoring FC97, also contact Julie Rackliffe: mailto:rackliffe@tcm.org Financial Cryptography '97 is held in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research. The conference proceedings will be published on the web by the Journal for Internet Banking and Commerce. http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/JIBC/. The FC97 Organizing Committee: Vince Cate and Bob Hettinga, General Chairs Ray Hirschfeld, Conference Chair Ian Goldberg, Workshop Chair Julie Rackliffe, Conference, Exhibit, and Sponsorship Manager And our sponsors... The Journal for Internet Banking and Commerce http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/JIBC/ Offshore Information Services http://www.offshore.com.ai/ e$ http://www.vmeng.com/rah/ C2NET http://www.c2.net/ See Your Name Here ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/rah/ FC97: Anguilla, anyone? http://www.ai/fc97/ "If *you* don't go to FC97, *I* don't go to FC97"