--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: rah@pop.sneaker.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:52:18 -0400 To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, dcsb-announce@ai.mit.edu From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: DCSB: Carl Ellison on Identity and Certification for Electronic Commerce Cc: cme@cybercash.com Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Carl Ellison CyberCash, Inc. Identity and Certification for Electronic Commerce Tuesday, November 4, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA It is a common belief that you can not trust someone on the net unless/until you establish his "identity" via an interactive protocol in which the other person establishes proof of ownership of a given private key and a transfer of certificates which establish a binding between that key and a person's "identity" (in the form of a common name plus enough information to make it unique in some global hierarchy of names). This talk will establish that the proof of key ownership is the primary value obtained from this process and that the global hierarchy of names is effectively useless. It will propose certificates for electronic commerce which use a person's public key to identify him, avoiding the hierarchy of names. Carl Ellison is a cryptographic engineer with CyberCash, Inc., of Reston VA. He has been involved in cryptography since about 1978 and seriously involved since doing his first cryptanalysis in 1986. With the introduction of PEM in the early 1990's, he found the PEM certification process to be a killing roadblock and has studied certification and the establishment of identity since that time. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $30.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date 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, November 1, 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 $30.00. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: December James O'Toole Internet Coupons January Joseph Reagle "Social Protocols": Meta-data and Negotiation in Digital Commerce February Donald Eastlake SET We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com> . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo@ai.mit.edu> . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: majordomo@ai.mit.edu> . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNEJRn8UCGwxmWcHhAQGICggAoRXxsE1E2LsAxMX0jeg0nWbBxTKV5u6k riMP3EGN1UC/niyJu5rz8cB98y+YpdhfMBcw/qvgPvqt8h/ep897KMNKvVtYGloE 8Uyb6xf8czX3cD2VQ/M5c+eTEcjlorojUYSeo3d2eyc2e1aX+g23ydVkfawZPDBa f5DCUs5hN1s+ehThV9QpsyN31lpuc4YgUiSpWZCscbkrpXPM0zY2m/GhMdgNXw97 sHs2P3Pmnkgt61Yfkf6u1pMdxt3hpmgv78LLuFaZcsyIAk2Aur2yku53FqarFomo 55Qu1BnrRYH21+RE757wLzic4fXreYnkfNCo2bz/RXLkO7piVwqGsQ== =E24t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 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' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/> For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>