| 摘要 |
A secure architecture for value exchanges among parties (58, 60, 62), such that the parties can be widely distributed geographically and can employ a wide range of Accounting Units. It comprises a formalized legal contract in a special format, a public key that identifies each party, a computer for each party (54), a software program (56) for each party that can create, validate, sign, store, encrypt, transmit, and execute contracts, a communication method between the computers, and a database (52) for each party to hold the contracts and Identity information (98) for each party. |
