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Welcome to PKCS ’99

Welcome to PKCS ’99. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 29 September – 1 October 1999. Agenda. Recent developments, work in progress, future directions for the Public-Key Cryptography Standards Wednesday: Prof. Johan Håstad, KTH PKCS #5, #12, Contributors’ Agreement, #9, #11

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Welcome to PKCS ’99

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  1. Welcome to PKCS ’99 Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm29 September – 1 October 1999

  2. Agenda • Recent developments, work in progress, future directions for the Public-Key Cryptography Standards • Wednesday: • Prof. Johan Håstad, KTH • PKCS #5, #12, Contributors’ Agreement, #9, #11 • product demonstrations • Thursday: • PKCS #1, #14, #15 • interoperability workshop • Friday: • PKCS #13, ASN.1, new work items

  3. PKCS Distinctives • Purpose: • catalyst for formal and de facto standards • “missing pieces” • Scope: • public-key infrastructure, as well as cryptography • Process: • “informal,” “intervendor”

  4. RSA Security Inc. • New name for merger of three companies: • Security Dynamics Technologies (Bedford, MA, USA) • RSA Data Security (San Mateo, CA, USA) • Dynasoft AB (Stockholm, Sweden) • Three business lines: • RSA SecurID: strong authentication • RSA BSAFE: PKI components • RSA Keon: advanced PKI solutions • RSA Laboratories is the advanced technology and standards development group

  5. Workshop Representation • As of last Wednesday, among the 38 designating a country in our “informal” registration process ... • Austria, France, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Taiwan (1 ea.) • Finland (2) • Canada, UK (3 ea.) • Germany, USA (4 ea.) • Sweden (16) • Current registration is ~56

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