From: "Jerry Feldman" To: nh-isig@blu.org Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:49:39 -0400 Subject: *CONE* NH ISIG meeting, Tuesday, July 7, 1998 On the Internet, Even Dogs Need to be Authenticated. When: Tuesday July 7, 1998, 6:30 PM Where: Nashua, NH Public Library, 2 Court St, Nashua, NH. Featuring: Peter Cassidy, director of research at TriArche Research Group Topic: "On the Internet, Even Dogs Need to be Authenticated." You've probably seen the New Yorker cartoon of a dog sitting at a keyboard explaining to another mutt: "On the Internet no one knows you're a dog." Sure, anonymity and pseudonymity are important precipitates of the new electronic communications technology. Yet Web space's potential for commerce will not be fully realized until it has analogues of the identification systems we take for granted in the physical world. Wal-Mart may not care if you're a dog - but understand this Bowser: the company won't accept your check or extend credit for a bag of Dog Chow until the company can certify your identity and your creditworthiness. The NH iSig is presenting consultant, analyst and writer Peter Cassidy to discuss the politics and technology of on-line certification authorities at its July 7 meeting in Nashua. His talk is titled, "On the Internet, Even Dogs Need to be Authenticated." Everyone from the U.S. Post Office to brand-new tech companies are competing to develop on-line authentication services, often called Certification Authorities, to take a nick from every transaction that goes through the Web. Mr. Cassidy will discuss these certification authorities, their theoretical roles, the hierarchical authentication models many of these competitors are developing and the distributed authentication schemes that he believes will inevitably displace them. Peter Cassidy, director of research at TriArche Research Group, a business development consultantcy, has conducted research programs in security systems for a number of private clients and for larger consulting firms such as Giga and Dataquest before founding TriArche in 1996. As an industrial writer his work has appeared The Economist, ForbesASAP, WIRED, Silicon Strategies, Software Developer and Publisher Magazine, Telepath Magazine, Bankers Monthly, American Banker, CFO Magazine, NetscapeWorld, CIO Magazine and Datamation Magazine. Mr. Cassidy has been interviewed about computer and telephony security issues on several broadcast radio programs in the United States and, appropriately enough, on C|Net Radio, an international Internet-based audio network. Mr. Cassidy was a co-founder of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston which sponsors monthly talks on e-commerce issues to give language to the possibilities held out by today's technologies and to imagine the future. ---------- Everyone Welcome, No Memberships or Fees to attend! For more information contact Ken Adams Or Jerry Feldman Mailing list: nh-isig@blu.org To subscribe, send email to:nh-isig-request@blu.org. In the BODY of the message, just include the word, subscribe. Check out the newly updated nh-isig web pages including the new tech support and discussion areas. Directions to the Nashua Public Library (Plenty of free parking after 5PM) map: http://www.nh-isig.org/gifs/map.jpg Jerry Feldman New Hampshire Internet SIG Meeting Coordinator http://www.nh-isig.org http://gaf.ne.mediaone.net