--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: dcs-ny-announce@piermont.com To: "recipient list suppressed" <perry@piermont.com> Subject: DCS-NY: Dec. 15 Meeting: Win Treese of Open Market Reply-To: dcs-ny-rsvp@piermont.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Date: 17 Nov 1998 12:54:49 -0500 Lines: 110 Sender: owner-dcs-ny-announce@piermont.com [If you know of people who may be interested in this meeting, please feel free to forward this message to them.] The next luncheon meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of New York (DCS-NY), will be held on Tuesday, December 15th at 12:00. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP and send in your check (as explained below) as soon as possible. [Note: This month, DCS-NY will be on the third Tuesday of the month, not the second, because of scheduling conflicts.] This Month's Luncheon Talk: Does Internet Commerce Really Need a PKI? Win Treese Corporate Systems Architect Open Market, Inc. treese@openmarket.com It is now commonplace to claim that a "good PKI" [Public Key Infrastructure] is the technology that will enable the widespread growth of Internet commerce. But what does Internet commerce need from a PKI? Based on our experiences with many kinds of businesses, we will examine some of the real-world security requirements and how public-key systems may be appropriate or inappropriate solutions to those problems. Win Treese is Corporate Systems Architect at Open Market, Inc., (http://www.openmarket.com) a leading vendor of software for Internet commerce. At Open Market, he has worked on many different products and systems, with a particular focus on security for commerce applications. He has previously worked at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Lab and at MIT's Project Athena. He is co-author of the book "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" (http://www.treese.org/Commerce). In addition, he chairs the IETF Working Group on Transport Layer Security (TLS), and is program chair for the 8th USENIX Security Symposium (http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/). WHAT IS DCS-NY? The Digital Commerce Society of New York (DCS-NY) is a spin-off of DCS-Boston (DCSB). We meet once a month for lunch at the Harvard Club of New York -- usually on the second Tuesday of the month -- to explore the implications of rapidly emerging internet and cryptographic technologies on finance and commerce. If you are interested in attending our next luncheon meeting, please follow the directions located below. If you merely wish to be added to our e-mail meeting announcements list, you may send your e-mail address to "dcs-ny-rsvp@piermont.com". Perry PS We would like to thank John McCormack for his invaluable assistance in procuring the venue for our meetings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO RSVP: The meeting will start at 12:00 noon on December 15th at the Harvard Club, which located at 27 West 44th St. in Manhattan. The cost of the luncheon is $49.00. To RSVP, please: A) Send a check for $49.00 (payable to "The Harvard Club of New York") to: Harry S. Hawk DCS-NY LUNCHEON Piermont Information Systems, Inc. 175 Adams St., #9G Brooklyn, New York 11201 Please include along with your check: 1) The name of the person attending 2) Their daytime phone number 3) Their e-mail address B) Send an email message to dcs-ny-rsvp@piermont.com indicating that you have sent your check. The receipt of your check is your actual RSVP. We use the email to insure that nothing gets lost in the mail. You will get email from us once the check is received. Making final arrangements for our room requires that we have a good idea of how many attendees we will have. Because of this, it is very important that you RSVP quickly so that we will be able to get a larger room if necessary. All checks must be received no later than Friday December 11th. If you are uncertain that your check will arrive by the correct date, please use a messenger or express mail service. The late fee is $75 per person paid with a corporate check or money order. We will always try to accommodate everyone we can, even at the last minute. However, we can not guarantee that those who have not RSVPed will be seated. *Please* try to RSVP. Please note that the Harvard Club dress code requires jacket and tie for men and comparable attire for women. If you have special dietary requirements, please check with us by email before you RSVP. We are looking forward to seeing you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Perry --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.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'