[Note that the Harvard Club is now "business casual". No more jackets and ties... --RAH] The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Win Treese, Fellow, VP Technology, Open Market, Inc. Fermi's Revenge: Systems Thinking for Financial Cryptography Tuesday, December 5th, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The technology of financial cryptography has promised many changes for the way that individuals and organizations do business, yet little progress has been made in real systems. In part, this is because the technology proposals--the crypto, the protocols, and occasionally code--are usually presented with little or no context for the total system in which they play. This talk will look at some of the systems issues, both technical and non-technical, that are critical for successful implementations of financial cryptography. Win Treese is a Fellow and Vice President of Technology at Open Market, Inc. At Open Market, he has contributed to the architecture and implementation of many of its products, with a particular focus on security. Before co-founding Open Market in 1994, he was a member of the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory. In 1999, Win was named a "High-Tech All Star" by Mass High Tech. He is co-author of the book "Designing Systems for Internet Commerce" and chairs theTransport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, December 5th, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, December 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: TBD Ted Byfield Decentralized DNS Control TBD Scott Moskowitz Watermarking and Bluespike As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com>. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@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' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo@reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB@reservoir.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@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'