siteconf: - baseurl: taler.net newsloc: /news/ newsdir: 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: &langs en: English ar: Arabic zh_Hant: Chinese fr: Français de: Deutsch hi: Hindi it: Italiano ja: 日本語 ko: Korean pt: Português pt_BR: Português (Brazil) ru: Ру́сский язы́к es: Español sv: Svenska tr: Türk symlinks: staticfiles: - file: favicon.ico targets: - favicon.ico - file: robots.txt targets: - robots.txt meetingnotes: newsposts: - page: 2021-03.html date: 2021-03-29 title: Why a Digital Euro should be Online-first and Bearer-based abstract: content: - page: 2021-01.html date: 2021-02-23 title: How to issue a Central Bank Digital Currency abstract: With the emergence of Bitcoin and recently proposed stablecoins from BigTechs, such as Diem (formerly Libra), central banks face a choice of either leaving the field to private actors or offering their own digital alternative to physical cash. We do not address whether a central bank should issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Instead, we demonstrate how a central bank could do so, if desired or needed. We propose a token-based system without distributed ledger technology and show how earlier-deployed, software-only electronic cash can be improved upon to preserve transaction privacy, meet regulatory requirements in a compelling way, and offer a level of quantum-resistant protection against systemic privacy risk. Neither monetary policy nor financial stability would be materially affected because our CBDC would replicate physical cash rather than bank deposits. content: - page: 2020-11.html date: 2020-10-25 title: RFC 8905 - "The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments" published abstract: RFC 8905 defines the 'payto' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for designating targets for payments. A unified URI scheme for all payment target types allows applications to offer user interactions with URIs that represent payment targets, simplifying the introduction of new payment systems and applications. content: - page: 2020-10.html date: 2020-10-01 title: Talk about GNU Taler in Valencia abstract: content: - page: 2020-09.html date: 2020-09-16 title: GNU Taler launched at Bern University of Applied Sciences abstract: content: - page: 2020-07.html date: 2020-07-01 title: Exchange independent security audit report published abstract: content: - page: 2020-04.html date: 2020-04-01 title: Exchange ready for external security audit abstract: content: - page: 2020-03.html date: 2020-03-31 title: GNU Taler v0.7.0 released abstract: content: - page: 2019-12.html date: 2019-12-27 title: GNU Taler v0.6.0 released abstract: content: - page: 2018-04.html date: 2018-04-01 title: GNU Taler v0.5.0 released abstract: content: - page: 2017-10.html date: 2017-10-01 title: GNU Taler v0.4.0 released abstract: content: - page: 2017-08.html date: 2017-08-01 title: We explain GNU Taler at SHA 2017 abstract: content: - page: 2017-04.html date: 2017-04-01 title: "Sva explains GNU Taler at EasterHegg and Torsten demonstrates it is child's play" abstract: content: - page: 2017-03.html date: 2017-03-01 title: Sva explains GNU Taler at FOSSASIA in Singapore abstract: content: - page: 2017-02.html date: 2017-02-01 title: Florian Dold explains Taler at 50p in Bangalore abstract: content: - page: 2017-01.html date: 2017-01-01 title: Taler Documentation pages updated abstract: content: - page: 2016-12.html date: 2016-12-01 title: Christian Grothoff explains Taler at hasgeek in Bangalore abstract: content: - page: 2016-10.html date: 2016-10-01 title: Taler Wallet for Firefox online abstract: content: - page: 2016-09.html date: 2016-09-01 title: Taler Web Payments paper published abstract: content: - page: 2016-08.html date: 2016-08-01 title: Taler Systems S.A. created abstract: content: - page: 2016-06.html date: 2016-06-01 title: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released abstract: content: - page: 2015-12.html date: 2015-12-01 title: "Taler Demo for Chrome/Chromium online" abstract: content: - page: 2015-11.html date: 2015-11-01 title: "Christian Grothoff explains the goals behind Taler" abstract: content: - page: 2015-02.html date: 2015-02-01 title: Taler becomes an official GNU package abstract: content: - page: 2014-12.html date: 2014-12-01 title: "Watch Christian Grothoff's FOSSA talk on Taler" abstract: content: - page: 2014-11.html date: 2014-11-01 title: Launching taler.net abstract: content: videoslist: paperslist: - year: 2021 authors: - Christian Grothoff - Florian Dold kind: Article name: "Why a Digital Euro should be Online-first and Bearer-based" 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 Centrally Banked 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: 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: 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: - 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: "available upon request" - 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: