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  newsloc: /news/
  rsstitle: Taler.net
  rssdescr: "News posts published by Taler about changes related to Taler, releases and events"
  rssloc:
  rsslink:
  rsslang:
  docshost: docs.taler.net
langs_full:
  en: English
  ar: عربى
  zh_Hant: 繁體中文
  zh_Hans: 简体中文
  cs: Česky
  fr: Français
  de: Deutsch
  hi: हिंदी
  hu: Magyar
  it: Italiano
  ja: 日本語
  ko: 한국어
  pt: Português
  pt_BR: Português (Brazil)
  ru: Ру́сский язы́к
  es: Español
  sv: Svenska
  tr: Türkçe
  nl: Nederlands
meetingnotes:
newsposts:
  - page: 2023-09.html
    date: 2023-09-27
    title: "GNU Taler v0.9.3 released"
  - page: 2023-06.html
    date: 2023-06-30
    title: "Practical Offline Payments Using One-Time Passcodes"
  - page: 2023-04.html
    date: 2023-04-16
    title: "GNU Taler v0.9.2 released"
  - page: 2023-01.html
    date: 2023-01-27
    title: "GNU Taler v0.9.1 released"
  - page: 2022-11.html
    date: 2022-11-11
    title: "Richard Stallman's Business Pitch for Taler Systems SA"
  - page: 2022-10.html
    date: 2022-11-05
    title: "GNU Taler v0.9 released"
  - page: 2022-09.html
    date: 2022-08-10
    title: "Zero-Knowledge Age Restriction for GNU Taler"
  - page: 2022-08.html
    date: 2022-06-26
    title: "Datenschutzfreundliches digitales Bezahlen"
  - page: 2022-07.html
    date: 2022-06-21
    title: "A digital euro and the future of cash"
  - page: 2022-06.html
    date: 2022-06-16
    title: "GNU Taler Scalability"
  - page: 2022-05.html
    date: 2022-05-25
    title: "Paper: Who comes after us? The correct mindset for designing a Central Bank Digital Currency"
  - page: 2022-03.html
    date: 2022-03-11
    title: "Central Bank Accounts are Dangerous and Unnecessary: A critique of two papers"
  - page: 2022-02.html
    date: 2022-02-21
    title: "Adding Schnorr's Blind Signatures to Taler"
  - page: 2022-01.html
    date: 2022-02-05
    title: Come una banca centrale dovrebbe emettere una moneta digitale
  - page: 2021-11.html
    date: 2021-11-04
    title: Understanding and designing technologies for everyday financial collaboration
  - page: 2021-10.html
    date: 2021-10-12
    title: Cómo Emitir una Moneda Digital del Banco Central
  - page: 2021-09.html
    date: 2021-08-24
    title: GNU Taler v0.8 released
  - page: 2021-08.html
    date: 2021-08-08
    title: Code Blau GmbH deploys first external Taler auditor
  - page: 2021-07.html
    date: 2021-06-22
    title: Comment émettre une monnaie numérique de banque centrale
  - page: 2021-06.html
    date: 2021-06-17
    title: How to issue a Privacy-preserving Central Bank Digital Currency
  - page: 2021-03.html
    date: 2021-03-29
    title: Why a Digital Euro should be Online-first and Bearer-based
  - page: 2021-01.html
    date: 2021-02-23
    title: How to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency
  - page: 2020-11.html
    date: 2020-10-25
    title: RFC 8905 - "The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments" published
  - page: 2020-10.html
    date: 2020-10-01
    title: Talk about GNU Taler in Valencia
  - page: 2020-09.html
    date: 2020-09-16
    title: GNU Taler launched at Bern University of Applied Sciences
  - page: 2020-07.html
    date: 2020-07-01
    title: Exchange independent security audit report published
  - page: 2020-04.html
    date: 2020-04-01
    title: Exchange ready for external security audit
  - page: 2020-03.html
    date: 2020-03-31
    title: GNU Taler v0.7.0 released
  - page: 2019-12.html
    date: 2019-12-27
    title: GNU Taler v0.6.0 released
  - page: 2018-04.html
    date: 2018-04-01
    title: GNU Taler v0.5.0 released
  - page: 2017-10.html
    date: 2017-10-01
    title: GNU Taler v0.4.0 released
  - page: 2017-08.html
    date: 2017-08-01
    title: We explain GNU Taler at SHA 2017
  - page: 2017-04.html
    date: 2017-04-01
    title: "Sva explains GNU Taler at EasterHegg and Torsten demonstrates it is child's play"
  - page: 2017-03.html
    date: 2017-03-01
    title: Sva explains GNU Taler at FOSSASIA in Singapore
  - page: 2017-02.html
    date: 2017-02-01
    title: Florian Dold explains Taler at 50p in Bangalore
  - page: 2017-01.html
    date: 2017-01-01
    title: Taler Documentation pages updated
  - page: 2016-12.html
    date: 2016-12-01
    title: Christian Grothoff explains Taler at hasgeek in Bangalore
  - page: 2016-10.html
    date: 2016-10-01
    title: Taler Wallet for Firefox online
  - page: 2016-09.html
    date: 2016-09-01
    title: Taler Web Payments paper published
  - page: 2016-08.html
    date: 2016-08-01
    title: Taler Systems S.A. created
  - page: 2016-06.html
    date: 2016-06-01
    title: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released
  - page: 2015-12.html
    date: 2015-12-01
    title: "Taler Demo for Chrome/Chromium online"
  - page: 2015-11.html
    date: 2015-11-01
    title: "Christian Grothoff explains the goals behind Taler"
  - page: 2015-02.html
    date: 2015-02-01
    title: Taler becomes an official GNU package
  - page: 2014-12.html
    date: 2014-12-01
    title: "Watch Christian Grothoff's FOSSA talk on Taler"
  - page: 2014-11.html
    date: 2014-11-01
    title: Launching taler.net
videoslist:
paperslist:
  - year: 2023
    authors:
      - Priscilla Huang
      - Emmanuel Benoist
      - Sebastian Javier Marchano
      - Christian Grothoff
    comment:
    name: "Practical Offline Payments Using One-Time Passcodes"
    kind: article
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/suerf2023en.pdf"
  - year: 2022
    authors:
      - Özgür Kesim
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Florian Dold
      - Martin Schanzenbach
    comment:
    name: "Zero-Knowledge Age Restriction for GNU Taler"
    kind: article
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/esorics2022-age-restriction.pdf"
  - year: 2022
    authors:
      - Martin Summer
      - Hannes Hermanky
    name: "A digital euro and the future of cash"
    kind: Article
    url: https://www.oenb.at/dam/jcr:0e3c00d6-2e0a-4089-b23c-5604e60ebde5/07_Mop_Q1-2_22_A-digital-euro-and-the-future-of-cash.pdf
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/digital-euro-and-the-future-of-cash.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2022
    authors:
      - Marco Boss
    name: "GNU Taler Scalability"
    kind: Bachelor Thesis
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/boss2022thesis.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2022
    authors:
      - Gian Demarmels
      - Lucien Heuzeveldt
    name: "Adding Schnorr's Blind Signature in Taler"
    kind: Bachelor Thesis
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/cs-thesis.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2022
    authors:
      - Antoine d'Aligny
      - Emmanuel Benoist
      - Florian Dold
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Özgür Kesim
      - Martin Schanzenbach
    name: "Central Bank Accounts are Dangerous and Unnecessary: A critique of two papers"
    kind: Article
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/accounts-dangerous-2022.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2021
    authors:
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Thomas Moser
    name: "How to Issue a Privacy-preserving Central Bank Digital Currency"
    kind: Article
    url: https://www.suerf.org/suer-policy-brief/27227/how-to-issue-a-privacy-preserving-central-bank-digital-currency
    url_html: https://www.suerf.org/suer-policy-brief/27227/how-to-issue-a-privacy-preserving-central-bank-digital-currency
    url_pdf: "papers/suerf2021en.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2021
    authors:
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Florian Dold
    kind: Article
    name: "Why a Digital Euro should be Online-first and Bearer-based"
    url:
    url_html:
    comment:
    url_pdf: "papers/euro-bearer-online-2021.pdf"
  - year: 2021
    authors:
      - David Chaum
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Thomas Moser
    name: "How to Issue a Central Bank Digital Currency"
    kind: Article
    url: https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/cbdc2021en.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2021
    authors:
      - David Chaum
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Thomas Moser
    name: "Comment émettre une monnaie numérique de banque centrale"
    kind: Article
    url: https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/cbdc2021fr.pdf"
    comment: Translation by Marie Walrafen and Emmanuel Benoist
  - year: 2021
    authors:
      - David Chaum
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Thomas Moser
    name: "Come una banca centrale dovrebbe emettere una moneta digitale"
    kind: Article
    url: https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/cbdc2021it.pdf"
    comment: Translation by Dora Scilipoti
  - year: 2021
    authors:
      - Belén Barros Pena
    kind: PhD Thesis
    name: "Understanding and designing technologies for everyday financial collaboration"
    url_html:
    comment:
    url_pdf: "papers/thesis_belen_barros_pena.pdf"
  - year: 2020
    authors:
      - Dominik Wenger
    name: "Embedded system for GNU/Taler: Designing an embedded system for cashless payment on a vending machine"
    kind: Bachelor Thesis
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/thesis-wenger-2020.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2020
    authors:
      - J. Florian Kimmes
    name: "Peer-to-Peer Transactions for Privacy-Preserving Mobile Payments using GNU Taler
"
    kind: Bachelor Thesis
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/jfk2020thesis.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2020
    authors:
      - Dominik Samuel Meister
      - Dennis Neufeld
    name: "Anastasis: Password-less key recovery via multi-factor multi-party authentication"
    kind: Bachelor Thesis
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/thesis-anastasis-2020.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2019
    authors:
      - Florian Dold
    name: "The GNU Taler System: Practical and Provably Secure Electronic Payments"
    kind: PhD Thesis
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/thesis-dold-phd-2019.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2019
    authors:
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Alex Pentland
    name: "Digital cash and privacy: What are the alternatives to Libra?"
    kind: MIT Media Lab
    url:
    url_html: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/digital-cash-and-privacy-what-are-the-alternatives-to-libra/
    url_pdf:
    comment:
  - year: 2016
    authors:
      - Jeff Burdges
      - Florian Dold
      - Christian Grothoff
      - Marcello Stanisci
    name: "Enabling Secure Web Payments with GNU Taler"
    kind: SPACE 2016
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/taler2016space.pdf"
    comment:
  - year:
    authors:
      - Florian Dold
      - Sree Harsha Totakura
      - Benedikt Müller
      - Jeff Burdges
      - Christian Grothoff
    name: "Refreshing Coins for Giving Change and Refunds in Chaum-style Anonymous Payment Systems"
    kind:
    url:
    url_pdf:
    url_html:
    comment: "<em>available upon request</em>"
  - year: 1982
    authors:
      - David Chaum
    name: "Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments"
    kind: "CRYPTO '82"
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/chaum-blind-signatures.pdf"
    comment:
  - year: 2001
    authors:
      - M. Bellare
      - C. Namprempre
      - D. Pointcheval
      - M. Semanko
    name: "The One-More-RSA-Inversion Problems and the Security of Chaum's Blind Signature Scheme"
    kind: Financial Cryptography
    url:
    url_html:
    url_pdf: "papers/bellare_blindsigs_proof.pdf"
    comment:
objectives:
- title: Make GNU Taler legally available to users in the EU via retail banks
  text: "We will make GNU Taler available to the European public as a commercial payment system. 
  This will create the globally first software-based payment solution that offers strict technical 
  privacy assurances for buyers in e-commerce. Additionally, GNU Taler's design offers real-time external 
  auditing of the payment service provider by independent third parties based on cryptographic signatures covering 
  all processes in the entire payment system, thus creating a milestone in accountability."
- title: Ensure GNU Taler is accepted as a payment solution by European retailers
  text: "We will provide merchants with an open payment standard with lower prices. End-consumers will enjoy improved 
  shopping experience and preservation of personal data. Besides these two benefits, merchants can better protect their 
  market expertise and shield it from potential competitors by avoiding competitor platforms which abuse their knowledge 
  and/or data. We will integrate GNU Taler into the diverse work-flows of a multitude of businesses through open calls' 
  integration and other interested parties."
- title: Improve the technical maturity of the GNU Taler software
  text: "We will perform security reviews of key components of the GNU Taler system and then ensure that relevant components 
  are available for Windows, MacOS and various GNU/Linux distributions. We will automate packaging for these platforms and port 
  the WebExtension to additional browsers. We will furthermore implement various additional features that were already requested 
  by community members (citizens or retailers). For example, a publisher wants to offer a discount on a subscription to readers 
  that recently purchased individual articles. Part of this objective is to address such requests, including new ideas that are 
  proposed during the project."
- title: Raise the awareness for the project in the general public
  text: "With GNU Taler, citizens will experience a much higher online shopping convenience, especially for low-valued items like 
  digital goods. To pay with GNU Taler, they will need no registration, no log-in, and no complicated multi-factor authentication 
  over multiple devices — just one simple click for the young and the old. Citizens will also experience improved privacy online. 
  This may especially feel good while supporting (investigative) journalism. Less tracking for advertising, fewer account-based payments, 
  less phishing, less identity theft — all predicated on GNU Taler enabling micro-payments with better privacy — will improve online security. 
  We will explain these advantages to citizens, using various large-scale communication channels in existence."
partners:
- id: TUE
  name: "Eindhoven University of Technology"
  contact: "Prof. Dr. Tanja Lange"
  logo: images/logo-tue.svg
  url: "https://www.tue.nl/"
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: BFH
  name: "Bern University of Applied Sciences"
  contact: "Prof. Dr. Christian Grothoff"
  logo: images/logo-bfh.svg
  url: https://ti.bfh.ch
  role: "Bern University of Applied Sciences has extensive experience in the operation,
   development and enhancement of software and hardware for the GNU Taler payment system 
   and can therefore also manufacture needed hardware."
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: TSYS
  name: "Taler Systems SA"
  contact: "Dr. Florian Dold"
  logo: images/logo-TalerSystems.svg
  url: https://taler-systems.com/
  role: "Taler Systems SA will sustain the development of the core GNU Taler technology
    and assist all partners with their respective integration efforts."
  statement: "This consortium offers the perfect opportunity to widely deploy GNU Taler
    in Europe and seed the global adoption of a payment system respecting informational
    self-determination."
- id: GLS
  name: "GLS Bank"
  contact: "-- TBD --"
  logo: images/logo-GlsBank.svg
  url: https://www.gls.de
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: MAG
  name: "MagNet Bank"
  contact: "-- TBD --"
  logo: images/logo-MagNetBank.svg
  url: https://www.magnetbank.hu/
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: CBG
  name: "Code Blau GmbH"
  contact: "-- TBD --"
  logo: images/logo-codeblau.svg
  url: https://example.org
  role: "Code Blau GmbH is a boutique IT-security consulting firm from Berlin, Germany, established in 1999. We help customers to design and develop secure software systems."
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: VV
  name: "Visual Vest"
  contact: "-- TBD --"
  logo: images/logo-placeholder.svg
  url: https://example.org
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: HODI
  name: "Homo Digitalis"
  contact: "Eleftherios Chelioudakis"
  logo: images/logo-HomoDigitalis.svg
  url: https://www.homodigitalis.gr/
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "Homo Digitalis, as a digital rights CSO, is extremely excited to participate
    in this project, working shoulder to shoulder with an amazing group of stakeholders
    to promote a new electronic privacy-preserving payment system that benefits European
    citizens, merchants, and banks."
- id: PS
  name: "petites singularités"
  contact: "Jean-Michel Massibot"
  logo: images/logo-ps.svg
  url: https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/taler
  role: "Petites singularités operates the TALER Integration Community Hub to facilitate
    socially inclusive adoption of NGI payment technology GNU Taler, notably by stakeholders
    from the independent book sector, e-Health sector (with eSeniors), and the free
    software ICT supply chain (with NLnet)."
  statement: "GNU Taler is the only serious candidate alternative to existing global
    market payment solutions and, contrary to them, GNU Taler supports EU values:
    it's free software implementing open standards to guarantee a fair, transparent
    and sovereign technology; it provides auditable, therefore taxable sales, while
    preserving anonymity of the buyer."
- id: ESEN
  name: "E-Seniors Association"
  contact: "-- TBD --"
  logo: images/logo-placeholder.svg
  url: 'https://example.org'
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "-- TBD --"
- id: NLnet
  name: "Stichting NLnet"
  contact: "-- TBD --"
  logo: images/logo-nlnet.svg
  url: https://nlnet.nl/
  role: "-- TBD --"
  statement: "-- TBD --"