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Authors #

Mikolai Gütschow #

Mikolai Gütschow is a research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch. His research focuses on privacy-preserving payments for the low-end Internet of Things, enabled by technologies such as GNU Taler.

Özgür Kesim #

Özgür Kesim is a PhD candidate at the FU Berlin, working on privacy preserving extensions for GNU Taler, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch and Prof. Dr. Christian Grothoff. He is also CEO of Code Blau GmbH, an IT security consulting firm from Berlin, Germany, for more than 25 years.

Acknowledgements #

The content of this website is based on an article published on arXiv.org together with the co-authors Joe Cannataci, Benjamin Fehrensen and Bernd Lucke. We thank Emmanuel Benoist and Christian Grothoff for extensive inspiration, editing and support. We thank Jens Palsberg, Richard Stallman and Tanja Lange for constructive feedback. This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space under grant ConcreteContracts. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies.

The format of this work has been inspired by the C++ FQA that takes an outsider’s perspective on the rosy FAQ on the C++ programming language written by the C++ core community.