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What does Ricardo use?

April 26, 2017ricardo

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What does Ricardo use?

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In terms of the 7 layers of financial cryptography, Ricardo building blocks above build upon the following lower layer components: • SOX is an open transactions protocol for passing value over the Internet. SOX is to transactions as SSL is to the web (layer 3 – Rights). • LaMassana is a general purpose accounting engine that provides a secure transactions facility for the Issuer (layer 4 – Accounting). • Cryptix is a library of strong crypto that secures the integrity of SOX payments (layer 1 – Cryptography). • FreeBSD is a secure Unix operating system that can host Ricardian servers (layer 2 – Software Engineering). Ricardo is a full suite of tools to allow electronic payments over the Internet. By means of the Ricardian Contract, it can be used to manage any financially fungible item. As well as cash, Ricardo can manage bonds and shares, loyalty systems, casino chips, etc.