Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Digital Notary

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Could you submit it again without using the GNU prefix ? That
risks confusing people.

        Please write to address@hidden for more information on how to become
part of the GNU project.

        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > 
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Horst Herb <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: GNU Digital Notary
 > System name: gnotary
 > This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > GNotary is a GPL licensed free peer-to-peer asynchronous digital notary 
 > service.
 > Written by  health professionals for mutual certification of authenticity of 
 > health records (tamper proofing), it might be useful for mainy other domains 
 > too.
 > It is a set of server and client python scripts using email as transport 
 > protocol. It allows anybody with access to email to provide notary services 
 > for his peers. Basically, the client creates time stamped secure hashes 
 > (MD5, RIPEMD-160) of the files to be certified and emails them to a list of 
 > servers. The servers digitally sign the message (using GNU Privacy Guard) 
 > and email certificates back to the sender. All transactions are logged on 
 > the servers, optionally certificate copies are stored as well. Servers 
 > mutually certify their transaction logs.
 > Validity of the certificates is based on the reputation and number of its 
 > users, assuming that it is less likely that several thousand non-acquainted 
 > professionals scattered around the world are more trustworthy than a single 
 > commercial entity. 
 > The server log certificate exchange makes it impossible to tamper individual 
 > certificates on individual servers.
 > 
 > At present, the project is named GNotary. We would like to make it a true 
 > GNU project and rename it to \"GNU Digital Notary\".
 > 
 > It already exists (in alpha stage, but already in use). The old web page 
 > (badly in need for rewriting) can be seen at http://gnumed.net/gnotary
 > 

-- 
Loic   Dachary         http://www.dachary.org/  address@hidden
24 av Secretan         http://www.senga.org/      address@hidden
75019    Paris         Tel: 33 1 42 45 09 16        address@hidden
        GPG Public Key: http://www.dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt