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diff --git a/ekrona/e-krona.tex b/ekrona/e-krona.tex index 0ed5913..a7f9199 100644 --- a/ekrona/e-krona.tex +++ b/ekrona/e-krona.tex @@ -32,23 +32,23 @@ \section*{Introduction} -Taler Systems is developing a solution called Taler, that could easily fit the requirements of the e-krona project. +Taler Systems is developing an online payment system called Taler, that could easily fit the requirements of the e-krona project. -Taler is an open source system based on a wallet and a central exchange. It provides instant one-click payments, can offer payer anonymity with receiver transparency for tax purposes. It is fast and cheap, and can hence also cover micro-payments economically (payments of the order of 1 cents). +Taler is an open source system based on a wallet and a central exchange. It provides instant one-click payments, can offer privacy-by-design and assures receiver transparency for tax purposes. It is fast and cheap, and can hence also cover micro-payments economically (payments of the order of 1 cents). -The USPs of the Taler Systems are as follows: +The USPs of Taler are: \begin{itemize} \item All operations provide cryptographically secured, with mathematical proofs for courts and auditors -\item Customer can remain anonymous, as with cash if desired +\item Customer payments are privacy preserving, like cash if desired \item Merchants are identifiable in each payment they receive \item Payments are in existing currencies -\item Fraud is mostly eliminated, especially compared to credit cards -\item Scalable, fast protocol implementation +\item Payment fraud is eliminated, short of catastrophic failures in cryptographic primitives +\item Linear scalability \item Suitable for micro-payments due to very low transaction costs \item Ease of use (one-click, instant) -\item Open standard protocol without patents, with free reference implementations +\item Open standard protocol without patents, with free reference implementation \end{itemize} Taler is intended to run with the following architectural elements. @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ The e-krona Taler wallet can exist on smartphones, in web-browsers, on smartcard The Taler System addresses the following requirements outlined in the report: -\begin{tabular}{l l} +\noindent +\begin{tabular}{p{4cm} p{8cm}} a) Specified in Swedish krona & Designed for all existing currencies \\ |