Notes from the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce

Michael Harkavy, Andrew Myers, J. D. Tygar, Alma Whitten and H. Chi Wong

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Abstract:

These are notes taken from the Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce from November 1996. They record presentations and questions from this workshop.

Introduction
Session I: Hardware Tokens
Session II: Protocol Analysis
Invited Talk
- Legal Signatures and Proof in Electronic Commerce
Session III: Policy and Economics
- Digital Currency and Public Networks: So What If It Is Secure, Is It Money?
- Modeling the Risks and Costs of Digitally Signed Certificates in Electronic Commerce
Session IV: Standard Payment Interfaces
Session V: Atomic Transactions
Session VI: Experience
Lunch with Invited Speaker
- Designing New Rules of the Road for Electronic Commerce in Digital Information
Session VII: Protocols
Panel Discussion
- Electronic Commerce in Practice - What Have We Learned?
Session VIII: Security
Session IX: Software Agents
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Alma Whitten
1998-07-21