Bug#890974: RFP: monero -- Private Digital Currency
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : monero
Version : 0.11.1.0
* URL : https://getmonero.org/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C++
Description : private digital currency
>From the website:
Monero is a private, secure, untraceable, decentralised digital
currency. You are your bank, you control your funds, and nobody can
trace your transfers unless you allow them to do so.
Privacy: Monero uses a cryptographically sound system to allow you to
send and receive funds without your transactions being easily revealed
on the blockchain (the ledger of transactions that everyone has). This
ensures that your purchases, receipts, and all transfers remain
absolutely private by default.
Security: Using the power of a distributed peer-to-peer consensus
network, every transaction on the network is cryptographically secured.
Individual wallets have a 25 word mnemonic seed that is only displayed
once, and can be written down to backup the wallet. Wallet files are
encrypted with a passphrase to ensure they are useless if stolen.
Untraceability: By taking advantage of ring signatures, a special
property of a certain type of cryptography, Monero is able to ensure
that transactions are not only untraceable, but have an optional measure
of ambiguity that ensures that transactions cannot easily be tied back
to an individual user or computer.
Packaging was started here:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/2395
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