The Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce was held in Oakland, California at the Claremont Hotel, with a day of tutorials on November 18, 1996, and three days of technical program beginning on November 19.
The best paper award was won by Ross Anderson and Markus Kuhn for ``Tamper Resistance -- A Cautionary Note.'' The best student paper award was won by David Wagner for his submission with Bruce Schneier, ``Analysis of the SSL 3.0 Paper.'' (Please check with the authors for final version of this paper.)
The proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce (which appeared several months after the workshop was completed) included a set of notes prepared by Peter Honeyman and his students. This guide was useful to researchers, so J. D. Tygar and his students organized a similar note-taking exercise for the Second Workshop. Since the proceedings for the Second (and Third) Workshops were distributed during the workshop, the program chairs for the Second and Third Workshops agreed to have these notes appear in the proceedings of the Third Workshop.
Electronic commerce has changed a lot since November 1996. We hope that the attendees to the Third USENIX Workshop will enjoy seeing this snapshot of the research state of our field from two years ago.