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 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2023 Dusan Klinec, Martin Paljak, Petr Svenda, Jan Sekanina
+Copyright (c) 2023 Jan Sekanina
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

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 # Policy-Based Validation of Bitcoin Transactions on Cryptographic Smartcards using JavaCard Template project with Gradle
 
-## Showcases 
+With the growth and global acceptance of Bitcoin as an electronic means of trade and the improvement of secure hardware in the last few decades, new opportunities opened in combining these technologies. This thesis presents such a new technology enhancing previous inventions with a policy-based approach. With the right policy palette available, this work is a first step to allowing an owner better control of his wealth. In this thesis, we managed to create a wide system of rules that accomplishes the goal set. The Smart Card is able to store a given rule (policy) and then validate whether the rules are satisfied based on uploaded Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions and other data according to the given policy.
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+## Showcase 
 ```aidl
 ./gradlew run 
 ```
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 ./gradlew test --info --rerun-tasks
 ```
 
-## Dependencies
 
+## Future Work
+I would like to implement a transaction signing and
+raw transaction serializing, with the possibility of using a key pair
+generated directly on the Card and the applet inscribing its own re-
+turn addresses. Adding more new Atoms is something I see as the
+most probable as new ones are already coming to mind, for example,
+extended Signed Time Atom, which would increase the time needed
+by a given value each time validation would be satisfied. I could also
+imagine combining this applet with other secure hardware or bio-metric devices, if possible.
+
+## Dependencies
 This project uses mainly:
 
 - https://github.com/bertrandmartel/javacard-gradle-plugin