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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