Whoever wants to participate in the gnotary peer-to-peer digital notary service, can now download a functional gnotary server from http://gnumed.net/gnotary/download/gnotary.0.3.1.tgz Gnotary is free software in the sense of the GPL (see http://www.gnu.org for details of the GPL licensing) It is early alpha test version; seems to work but might still contain bugs. It is not well documented yet, and there is little done yet in terms of error and exception handling - regardit as highly unstable though it has been runnning without a problem for a week now on my machine. DO NOT FORGET TO READ THE README FILE!!! All you need to run it is a POP3 account. Gnotary is a Python script. To runit, you need to install Python. If you don'thave it yet, you can download it from http://www.python.org I have tested the script only on Linux, but it should run unmodified on Windows and Macs as well (please let me know if there are incompatibility issues) I hope as many people as possible will have a go and test it - of course, this initial version should only be tested by people with at least some minimum of programming knowledge. I am waiting for feedback and error reports. I hope that a few of you wil help to extend the script to make it a full featured and reliable digital notary. The next version will be hosted on sourceforge with public CVS access. Horst
