Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:28:03 -0400 From: R. A. Hettinga Subject: DCSB: Phill Hallam-Baker; Trust Services and Second Generation PKI The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker, Principal Scientist VeriSign "Trust Services and Second Generation PKI" Tuesday, July 3rd, 2001 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Traditional Public Key Infrastructures PKI are based on the certificate and directory model set forward in Kohnfelder's MIT Masters Thesis of 1978 in which the PKI client has task of establishing and evaluating trust relationships. This architecture offers high security but places a high implementation burden on application developers. Deployment of sophisticated PKI functionality such as cross certification and revocation checking has been significantly delayed since such features have no value until widely deployed. Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker will describe the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS), a second generation PKI architecture that overcomes the problems of deploying rich PKI functionality by shielding the client from the complexity of the underlying PKI. Through XKMS, a client may offload all PKI processing functions to a Trust Service. Deployment of sophisticated functionality may then be achieved by modifying the trust service and does not have to wait for deployment of a new generation of PKI clients. Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker is Principal Scientist at VeriSign Inc. and the Senior Author of XML Key Management Specification (XKMS). He is also the Editor of the Core Assertions section of the OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specification. Dr. Hallam-Baker has been developing payment and security services for the World Wide Web since 1992. Before joining VeriSign he held positions at DESY, CERN and MIT. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2001, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $37.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, June 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $37.70. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (we've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: TBA Jean Camp TBA As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to . We look forward to seeing you there! ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe from this list, send a letter to: Majordomo@reservoir.com In the body of the message, write: unsubscribe dcsb-announce Or, to subscribe, write: subscribe dcsb-announce If you have questions, write to me at Owner-DCSB@reservoir.com