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Celebrating 20 years of Financial Cryptography and Data Security
Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi will take a leading role in organizing the conference as one of the Anniversary Chairs
For more than 20 years Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) has been the primary forum to debate, discuss and advance the security and privacy related to commercial and financial systems. For instance, thanks to FC it has witnessed a large number of advances in secure and privacy-protecting electronic payment systems from eCash and micropayments to today's most popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.
Moreover, FC has been the host for Turing award winners and researchers with high impact.
The policies set forth in the Crypto Wars of the late 1990's played a role in locating the conference outside of US jurisdiction. The original Financial Cryptography conference has since been renamed to include Data Security in the title to reflect its broader scope.
What is special about FC is that in general security conferences are technical and focused, while FC has been a venue where experts of different areas come together with scientists and technical experts to discuss real-life issues. The forum enables a lot of industry-academia research interaction and has a strong track record for allowing ideas to flow to and from industrial, commercial and academic research. Leading companies have sent people to the conference and supported it.
In the past, many successful companies, including Paypal (the auction peer-to-peer payment company), Verisign (the primary certification authority for the web), and Intertrust (now a Sony-Philips company), have presented their very early ideas at FC. Other basic concepts in mobile voice communications (Starium, as discussed in 1997) are found in technologies such as Silent Circle, Signal, Blackphone, and others. Challenges to existing ciphers, such as the DES Challenge, had founding ideas at FC.
The 20th Conference of Financial Cryptography and Data Security will take place in Barbados from February 22th - 26th, 2016.
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