Financial Cryptography: 6th International Conference, FC 2002, Southampton, Bermuda, March 11-14, 2002, Revised Papers

by Matt Blaze (Editor)

The Sixth International Financial Cryptography Conference was held during March 11-14, 2002, in Southampton, Bermuda. As is customary at FC, these proceedings represent "final" versions of the papers presented, revised to take into account comments and discussions from the conference. Submissions to the conference were strong, with 74 papers submitted and 19 accepted for presentation and publication. (Regrettably, three of the submit­ ted papers had to be summarily rejected after it was discovered that they had been improperly submitted in parallel to other conferences.) The small program committee worked very hard under a tight schedule (working through Christmas day) to select the program. No program chair could ask for a better committee; my thanks to everyone for their hard work and dedication. In addition to the refereed papers, the program included a welcome from the Minister of Telecommunications and e-Commerce, Renee Webb, a keynote address by Nigel Hickson, and a panel on privacy tradeoffs cheiired by Rebecca Wright (with panelists Ian Goldberg, Ron Rivest, and Graham Wood). The traditional Tuesday evening "rump session" was skillfully officiated by Markus Jakobsson. My job as program chair was made much, much easier by the excellent work of our general chair, Nicko van Someren, who performed the miracle of hiding from me any evidence of the innumerable logistical nightmares associated with conducting this conference. I have no idea how he did it, but it must have involved many sleepless nights.

310 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

Matt Blaze (Ph.D., Computer Science; Princeton University, 1993; M.A., Computer Sciecne, Princeton, 1989; M.S., Computer Science, Columbia University, 1988; B.S., City University of New York (Hunter College), 1986) is a computer security, cryptography, network communication, and surveillance technology researcher and holds the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University. Previously he was an associate professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he served as director of the Distributed Computing Laboratory. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn, he was for 12 years a member of the research staff at AT&T Labs (previously known as AT&T Bell Labs) in New Jersey.

A focus of his research is on the properties and capabilities of surveillance technology (both lawful and illicit) in the context of modern digital systems and communications networks. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on related matters, and, in 1994, discovered weaknesses in the NSA's "Clipper" key escrow encryption system that led to that system's abandonment before it was widely deployed.