(Reposted with permission from DBS.) Looks cool. JMR
Lucrative is an open source digital bearer instrument issuance system. A third preview release is available today along with a new website and, importantly, a graphical client called CashBox. Lucrative is based on Ben Laurie's Lucre project. Lucre is a system of blinded digital cash: it is unlinkable and untraceable. The bank cannot record the coins it issues to customers, and cannot identify which account is paying which, except by traffic analysis. Lucrative is building a server anyone can use to build their own digital bearer instrument underwriting business. Even now, the server is fully functional. It's based on standards: SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol, and the major force behind the emergence of Web Services. It's written in platform-neutral Java. It's database-neutral, but we're developing on open source MySQL. Major goals are releasing easy-to-install packages, bringing server bug counts to a permanent zero, and developing the first graphical client, CashBox, into a 'smart client' that uses vendor-neutral digital bearer instruments, third party metadata and realtime, online markets. Help is wanted! If you can make suggestions, run the server through its paces, even send source code patches, all will gratefully accepted and credited. Money is also gratefully accepted, and if you donate some gold, your suggestions will be prioritized. Screenshots of the client, CashBox, and the latest downloads, readmes, and online Javadoc are available right now at the newly designed website: http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/. Patrick --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
