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1 {% extends "common/news.j2" %} 2 {% block body_content %} 3 4 <h1>2026-07: Taler lecture at Cedarcrypt 2026</h1> 5 <p> <small>by Özgür Kesim</small> </p> 6 <p> 7 Özgür Kesim from the GNU Taler team will give a lecture about Taler, 8 the protocol suite, at <a href="https://cedarcrypt.org/#program">Cedarcrypt 2026</a>, 9 a new applied cryptography summer school and conference, 10 July 13-16 in Paphos, Cyprus. 11 </p> 12 <p>The lecture is titled <em>The Taler Protocol Suite for Digital Payments</em>, 13 and has the following abstract: 14 </p> 15 <p> 16 <em> 17 The Taler protocol suite provides online digital payments 18 that preserve buyer anonymity while guaranteeing seller taxability and regulatory compliance. 19 This lecture walks through the essential protocol flows 20 — coin withdrawal, purchase, deposit, and refresh — 21 and standard cryptographic building blocks that make them work: 22 blind signatures (RSA and Schnorr), hash functions, HKDFs, 23 zero-knowledge cut-and-choose proofs, EC signature schemes and ECDH used in unusual ways, 24 up to recent work on making Taler post-quantum ready. 25 It is both an introduction to Taler and 26 a worked example of how cryptographic primitives compose 27 to solve real privacy challenges in digital payment. 28 </em> 29 </p> 30 <p> 31 Check out <a href="https://cedarcrypt.org">https://cedarcrypt.org</a> for more details. 32 </p> 33 34 {% endblock body_content %}