Original papers were solicited on all aspects of financial data security and digital commerce in general.
800 -- 820
Breakfast
820 -- 830
Welcome
830 -- 905
Micropayments via Efficient Coin-Flipping
Richard J. Lipton (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Rafail Ostrovsky (Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA)
905 -- 940
X-Cash: Executable Digital Cash
Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
Ari Juels (RSA Laboratories, Bedford, MA, USA)
940 -- 1015
Distributed Trustees and Revokability:
A Framework for Internet Payment
David M'Raihi (Gemplus, Issy-les-moulineaux, France)
David Pointcheval (GREYC, Universite de Caen, Caen, France)
1015 -- 1045
Coffee Break
1045 -- 1120
A Platform for Privately Defined Currencies, Loyalty Credits,
and Play Money
David P. Maher (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1120 -- 1155
Assessment of Threats for Smart Card Based Electronic Cash
Kazuo J. Ezawa, Gregory Napiorkowski
(Mondex International, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1155 -- 1230
Using a High-Performance, Programmable Secure Coprocessor
Sean W. Smith, Elaine R. Palmer, Steve Weingart
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA)
1230 -- 1330
Lunch
1830 -- 2000
Cocktail Reception (at Serenity Restaurant, Shoal Bay East)
800 -- 830
Breakfast
830 -- 905
Secure Group Barter:
Multi-Party Fair Exchange with Semi-Trusted Neutral Parties
Matt Franklin (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
Gene Tsudik (USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA)
905 -- 940
A Payment Scheme Using Vouchers
Ernest Foo, Colin Boyd
(Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)
940 -- 1015
A Formal Specification of Requirements for Payment Transactions
in the SET Protocol
Catherine Meadows, Paul Syverson
(Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA)
1015 -- 1045
Coffee Break
1045 -- 1120
On Assurance Structures for WWW Commerce
Markus Jakobsson (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
Moti Yung (CertCo, New York, NY, USA)
1120 -- 1230
Panel Discussion
Certificate Revocation: Mechanics and Meaning
Barb Fox (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), moderator
Joan Feigenbaum (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
Paul Kocher (Valicert, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
Michael Myers (Verisign, Mountain View, CA, USA)
Moni Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
Ron Rivest (MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA)
1230 -- 1330
Lunch
2000 -- 2200
Rump Session
800 -- 830
Breakfast
830 -- 930
Invited Speaker
Private Signatures and E-commerce
David Chaum (DigiCash, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
930 -- 1005
Group Blind Digital Signatures:
A Scalable Solution to Electronic Cash
Anna Lysyanskaya, Zulfikar Ramzan
(MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA, USA)
1005 -- 1045
Coffee Break
1045 -- 1120
Curbing Junk E-Mail via Secure Classification
Eran Gabber, Markus Jakobsson, Yossi Matias, Alain Mayer
(Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
1120 -- 1155
Publicly Verifiable Lotteries:
Applications of Delaying Functions
David M. Goldschlag (Divx, Herndon, VA, USA)
Stuart G. Stubblebine (AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1155 -- 1230
Security of Digital Watermarks
Lesley R. Matheson, Stephen G. Mitchell, Talal G. Shamoon,
Robert E. Tarjan, Francis X. Zane
(STAR Lab, InterTrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
1230 -- 1330
Lunch
1330 -- 1405
Security in the Java Electronic Commerce Framework
Surya Koneru, Ted Goldstein
(JavaSoft, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
1405 -- 1440
Beyond Identity: Warranty-Based Digital Signature Transactions
Yair Frankel (CertCo, New York, NY, USA)
David W. Kravitz (Divx, Herndon, Virginia, USA)
Charles T. Montgomery (CertCo, New York, NY, USA)
Moti Yung (CertCo, New York, NY, USA)
1440 -- 1515
Compliance Checking in the PolicyMaker Trust Management System
Matt Blaze, Joan Feigenbaum, Martin Strauss
(AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA)
1515 -- 1545
Coffee Break
1545 -- 1620
An Efficient Fair Off-Line Electronic Cash System
with Extensions to Checks and Wallets with Observers
Aymeric de Solages, Jacque Traore
(France Telecom--CNET, Caen, France)
1620 -- 1655
An Efficient Untraceable Electronic Money System Based on
Partially Blind Signatures of the Discrete Logarithm Problem
Shingo Miyazaki, Kouichi Sakurai
(Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
1655 -- 1700
Closing
The conference schedule and additional information is available at the
URL http://www.cwi.nl/conferences/FC98/.
Breakfast and lunch are provided at the conference. The conference organizers have left time open for corporate sponsored events, for networking, and for recreational activities on the resort island of Anguilla. Participants are encouraged to bring their families.
For more information on the workshop, please see the URL http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~iang/fc98/workshop.html.
For workshop registration, see the URL http://fc98.ai/.
Anguillan import duties are not imposed on hardware or software which will leave the island again. There are no other taxes--or cryptography import/export restrictions--on Anguilla.
Hotels range from spartan to luxurious, and more information about hotels on Anguilla can be obtained from your travel agent, or at the URL http://fc98.ai/. A block reservation has been made at Mariners, and this is the recommended hotel except for those seeking budget accomodations.
The cost of the FC98 Conference is US$1,000. There are reduced rates of US$250 and US$100 for full-time academics and students.
Booths for the exhibition start at US$5,000 and include two conference tickets. For more information about exhibit space, contact Blanc Weber, blancw@cnw.com. Sponsorship opportunities for FC98 are still available.
The cost of the workshop is US$5000, and includes meals but not lodging. You can register for the workshop, which runs the week after the conference, at the URL http://fc98.ai/.
Financial Cryptography '98 is held in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research.
It is sponsored by: