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1 .. 2 This file is part of GNU TALER. 3 Copyright (C) 2014-2023 Taler Systems SA 4 5 TALER is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the 6 terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software 7 Foundation; either version 2.1, or (at your option) any later version. 8 9 TALER is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY 10 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR 11 A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. 12 13 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with 14 TALER; see the file COPYING. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> 15 16 @author Florian Dold 17 @author Benedikt Muller 18 @author Sree Harsha Totakura 19 @author Marcello Stanisci 20 @author Christian Grothoff 21 @author Javier Sepulveda 22 23 GNU Taler Documentation 24 ======================= 25 26 We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern 27 cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send 28 money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital 29 cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay 30 Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional 31 money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can 32 be taxed, enabling income or sales taxes to be withheld by the state 33 while providing anonymity for Customers. 34 35 Cryptography is used to ensure that none of the participants can 36 defraud the others without being detected immediately; however, in 37 practice a fraudulent Exchange might go bankrupt instead of paying the 38 Merchants and thus the Exchange will need to be audited regularly like 39 any other banking institution. 40 41 The system is based on free software and open protocols. 42 43 In this documentation, we describe the REST-based APIs between the various 44 components, how to use the system, the internal architecture of key 45 components, and how to get them installed and configured. 46 47 Tutorials are available `here <https://tutorials.taler.net/>`_. They demonstrate installation steps, configuration options, 48 and overall usage of the different Taler components in text and video formats. 49 50 51 Documentation Overview 52 ---------------------- 53 54 .. toctree:: 55 :numbered: 56 :maxdepth: 1 57 58 core/index 59 taler-merchant-manual 60 taler-merchant-pos-terminal 61 taler-wallet 62 taler-exchange-manual 63 taler-kyc-manual 64 taler-challenger-manual 65 taler-auditor-manual 66 taler-directory-manual 67 taler-mailbox-manual 68 taler-magnet-bank-manual 69 libeufin/index 70 depolymerization/index 71 design-documents/index 72 taler-developer-manual 73 system-administration/index 74 global-licensing 75 manindex 76 genindex 77 78 .. toctree:: 79 :hidden: 80 81 fdl-1.3 82 tutorials