IRC
Internet Reality Check
5:30pm Friday, 25 September 1998
Board Room, National Press Club, Canberra
Topic: In PGP We Trust? - Public Key Certificates
Special Guest: Yinan Yang, National Library of Australia
Trust is an increasingly important concept on the Internet, especially for Electronic Commerce. Schemes such as X.509, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the Simple Public Key Infrastructure (SPKI) and a Simple Distributed Secure Infrastructure (SDSI) use public key encryption, certificates, and digital signatures. But will parties on the Internet really believe these Digital IDs?
Join Yinan Yang and Australia's leading Internet professionals, to discuss the issues in her paper "Which One is for You : Issues of Trust in Public Key Certificates".
IRCs are free (but you have to buy your own drinks and one for the special guest) and open to anyone interested: just turn up. Internet Reality Check (not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is designed so that members of the 'net community can meet and exchange the small amount of very important information which is not suitable for digital transmission. ;-)
See also:
- Which One is for You : Issues of Trust in Public Key Certificates, Yinan Yang, National Library of Australia
- Applying for an Australia Post certificate
- The 1998 Information Industry Outlook Conference, 7 November 1998
- National Press Club
- IRC Home Page
By Tom Worthington, Immediate Past President, Australian Computer Society.
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