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XML Security

Donald Eastlake
Motorola
Thursday, September 20, 2001

Note: Special Location: IBM Solution Partnership Center, Waltham MA

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Meeting Details

September, 2001 Meeting

Subject

XML Security

Speaker

Donald Eastlake
Motorola

Date

Thursday September 20, 7:00 PM

Time

6:45 pm: Refreshments
7:00 pm: Speaker

Location

Room SPC 208
IBM Solution Partnership Center
404 Wyman Street
Waltham, MA
See directions below.

Meeting Overview

XML is becoming increasingly popular and being used for a wide variety of applications. Standards are being developed and implemented for digital signature and encrypted data constructs in XML syntax. An overview will be given of these rapidly emerging standards and the special problems presented by using XML. Along the way, it will be explained why, in real world security systems, authentication is harder to get working reliably than encryption.

Speaker Biography

Donald Eastlake is a member of Technical Staff at Motorola, the co-chairman of the joint IETF/W3C XML Digital Signature working group, and a participant in the W3C XML Encryption working group. He was one of the principal architects of DNS Security and is also chair of the eCommerce oriented IETF TRADE working group. Before Motorola, Donald worked at IBM, CyberCash, Digital Equipment Corporation, CCA, and MIT. He has over 35 years of experience in the information technology field.

Optional Post-Meeting Dinner

An optional pay-your-own dinner will be held at The Green Papaya (Thai cuisine) Winter Street, Waltham, after the meeting.


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Unless noted otherwise, all GBC/ACM meetings are held in Room 4-231 (i.e., Bldg. 4, Room 231) at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

The meeting is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. The formal part of the meeting will start at 7:00 PM.

MIT is at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, just on the north side of Memorial Drive (on the north shore of the Charles River), in Cambridge, MA. One way to find room 4-231, which is on the second floor of building 4, is to enter the main complex of MIT buildings by coming in the main entrance at 77 Massachusetts Avenue, then walk straight through "the infinite corridor" until you reach building 4.

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