CFP

[Yair Frankel]

                      Final Call for Papers

                 Financial Cryptography `00
                    February 21-24, 2000
                        Anguilla, BWI


Original papers are solicited on all aspects of financial data
security and digital commerce in general for submission to the Fourth
Annual Conference on Financial Cryptography (FC00). FC00 aims to bring
together persons involved in the financial, legal and data security
fields to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas. Relevant topics
include


Anonymity Protection              Infrastructure Design
Auditability                      Legal/ Regulatory Issues
Authentication/ Identification    Loyalty Mechanisms
Certification/ Authorization      Payments/ Micropayments
Commercial Transactions           Privacy Issues
Copyright/ I.P. Management        Risk Management
Digital Cash/ Digital Receipts    Secure Banking Systems
Economic Implications             Smart Cards
Electronic Purses                 Trust Management
Implementations                   WaterMarking

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Directions for electronic submissions are at
http://www.fc00.cs.uwm.edu/esub.html, or send a cover letter and 12
copies of an extended abstract to be received no later than September
24, 1999 (or postmarked by September 17, 1999 and sent via airmail) to
the Program Chair. The extended abstract should start with the title,
names of authors, abstract, and keywords followed by a succinct
statement appropriate for a non-specialist reader specifying the
subject addressed, background, main achievements, and significance to
financial data security. Submissions are limited to 15 single-spaced
pages of 11pt type. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be
sent to authors no later than December 3, 1999. Authors of accepted
papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the
conference. Send submissions to:


Yair Frankel, FC00 Program Chair
231 North Avenue W. PMB #341
Westfield, NJ 07090, USA
email: yfrankel@cs.columbia.edu
phone: (908) 233-8737

PROCEEDINGS: Proceedings of the conference will be published by
Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series. Preproceedings will be available at the conference, but final
versions will not be due until afterwards, giving authors the
opportunity to revise their papers based on presentations and
discussions at the meeting. Instructions and deadlines for submission
of final papers will be sent later to authors of accepted papers.

Program Committee:
  Dan Boneh, Stanford
  Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs - Research
  Yair Frankel (Chair), CertCo
  Stuart Haber, InterTrust STAR Lab
  Philip MacKenzie, Lucent Bell Labs
  Ueli Maurer, ETH Zurich
  Clifford Neuman, University of Southern California
  Kazue Sako, NEC
  Dan Simon, Microsoft
  Paul Syverson, Naval Research Laboratory
  Win Treese, Open Market, Inc.
  Nicko van Someren, nCipher

Important Dates:
  Submissions Due: Sep. 24, 1999
  Notification: Dec 3, 1999

Electronic submissions:
  See http://www.fc00.cs.uwm.edu/esub.html for directions.

Electronic Submission chair:
  George Davida, UWM

Local Arrangement Chairs:
   Vince Cate, Offshore Information Services Ltd
   Rafael Hirschfeld, Unipay Technologies


Further Information about conference registration and on travel,
hotels, and Anguilla itself will follow in a separate general
announcement. FC00 is organized by the International Financial
Cryptography Association. Additional information about FC00 may be
found at http://fc00.ai .