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TALER WALLET

Description
===========

It implements the Taler wallet, which is a Web cross-browser extension written for the WebExtensions API.
This wallet is able to cooperate with all the other components : bank/merchant/exchange

Innovative Aspects
==================

The wallet is a full fledged cryptographic tool, which is pionieristic to find in the browsers extensions
world. In fact, not even platforms as Google Chrome have natively implemented all the cryptographic
routines needed by the Taler wallet. The other innovative aspects is that it allows the user to pay
anonymously and legally.

Planning/Perspectives
=====================

Although the WebExtensions API are meant to be cross-browser, only Google Chrome nowadays supports it;
thus in the future the wallet should be integrated also with other browsers.

Runtime Dependencies
====================

libgnunetutil
libgnunetjson
libgcrypt
libunistring

Installation
============

Run `./configure && make' to create an archive
containing the extension in ./build/taler-wallet-$VERSION.zip


Documentation
=============

See the documentation at http://doc.taler.net/dev-wallet-wx.html