corda/docs/source/inthebox.rst

What's included?

The current prototype consists of a small amount of code that defines:

• Key data structures
• Algorithms that work with them, such as serialising, hashing, signing, and verification of the signatures.
• Three smart contracts that implement a notion of a cash claim, a basic commercial paper and a crowdfunding contract. These are simplified versions of the real things.
• Unit tests that check the algorithms do what is expected, and which verify the behaviour of the smart contracts.
• API documentation and tutorials (what you're reading)

Some things it does not currently include but should gain later are:

• Sandboxing, distribution or publication of smart contract code
• A peer to peer network
• Database persistence
• An API for integrating external software
• A user interface for administration
• Many other things

You can browse the JIRA bug tracker.

The prototype's goal is rapid exploration of ideas. Therefore in places it takes shortcuts that a production system would not in order to boost productivity:

• It uses a serialization framework instead of a well specified, vendor neutral protocol.
• It uses secp256r1, an obsolete elliptic curve.