reminder from this month's enhyper newsletter, 2004 payment system and security conference http//www.enhyper.com/paysec/ also mention financial cryptography blog ... by some of the same people http//www.financialcryptography.com/ they also have short blurb on: http://www.bitpass.com/ enhyper also discovered norm hardy and some of his papers: ... the digital silk road http//www.cap-lore.com/Economics/DSR/ http//www.agorics.com/Library/dsr.html norm's past include LLNL, 360s, vm/370, secure operating systems and secure transactions: http://cap-lore.com/ and secure operating systems at tymshare with gnosis and keykos: http//www.agorics.com/Library/keykosindex.html http//www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ .... and there is EROS -- extremely reliable operation system (outgrowth of keykos) http//www.cis.upenn.edu/~eros/ ... note above mentions looking at getting an EAL7+ evaluation for eros. when MD bought tymshare they were looking at spinning off a number of things. i was brought in to do a technical audit of gnosis as part of its spin-off as keykos. they were also spinning off Doug Engelbart who was working at Tymshare at the time ... tymshare was running doug's "augment" system on pdp10 ... http//www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/mouse/mouse.html http//sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/dce-bio.htm http//www.invisiblerevolution.net/engelbart/glossary/augment_nls.html http//www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/nls and total topic drift, i've got lots of references to vm/370: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm --- 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'