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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 @author Özgür Kesim 23 24 ======================= 25 GNU Taler Documentation 26 ======================= 27 28 We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern 29 cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send 30 money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital 31 cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay 32 Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional 33 money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can 34 be taxed, enabling income or sales taxes to be withheld by the state 35 while providing anonymity for Customers. 36 37 Cryptography is used to ensure that none of the participants can 38 defraud the others without being detected immediately; however, in 39 practice a fraudulent Exchange might go bankrupt instead of paying the 40 Merchants and thus the Exchange will need to be audited regularly like 41 any other banking institution. 42 43 The system is based on free software and open protocols. 44 45 In this documentation, we describe the REST-based APIs between the various 46 components, how to use the system, the internal architecture of key 47 components, and how to get them installed and configured. 48 49 Tutorials are available `here <https://tutorials.taler.net/>`_. They demonstrate installation steps, configuration options, 50 and overall usage of the different Taler components in text and video formats. 51 52 53 .. toctree:: 54 :maxdepth: 1 55 :hidden: 56 :numbered: 57 :caption: For Exchange Operators 58 59 taler-exchange-manual 60 taler-kyc-manual 61 taler-challenger-manual 62 63 .. toctree:: 64 :maxdepth: 1 65 :hidden: 66 :numbered: 67 :caption: For Merchant Operators 68 69 taler-merchant-manual 70 taler-merchant-pos-terminal 71 72 .. toctree:: 73 :maxdepth: 1 74 :hidden: 75 :numbered: 76 :caption: For Bank Integrators 77 78 libeufin/index 79 taler-magnet-bank-manual 80 taler-cyclos-manual 81 depolymerization/index 82 83 .. toctree:: 84 :maxdepth: 1 85 :hidden: 86 :numbered: 87 :caption: For Regional and Event Currencies 88 89 regional/regional-automated-manual.rst 90 regional/regional-custom-manual.rst 91 regional/regional-manual-use.rst 92 93 .. toctree:: 94 :maxdepth: 1 95 :hidden: 96 :numbered: 97 :caption: For Other Operators 98 99 taler-auditor-manual 100 taler-directory-manual 101 taler-mailbox-manual 102 taler-apns-relay-manual 103 104 .. toctree:: 105 :maxdepth: 1 106 :hidden: 107 :numbered: 108 :caption: For Developers 109 110 core/index 111 developer/index 112 design-documents/index 113 114 115 .. toctree:: 116 :maxdepth: 1 117 :hidden: 118 :numbered: 119 :caption: For System Administrators 120 121 manindex 122 system-administration/index 123 deployments/index 124 125 .. toctree:: 126 :maxdepth: 1 127 :hidden: 128 :numbered: 129 :caption: For Lawyers 130 131 global-licensing 132 fdl-1.3 133 134 .. toctree:: 135 :hidden: 136 :caption: Other 137 138 genindex 139