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+Botan: Version 1.5.6, March 1, 2006
+
+*** Please note that this is an expermimental / development version of
+    Botan. Don't be surprised by bugs. No, the documentation hasn't been
+    updated (yet). Feedback and critical anylsis is highly appreciated, and if
+    you can suggest something better than what I'm doing now, I may well go
+    ahead and implement it (it's happened before...). If this sounds scary, use
+    the latest 1.4 release instead.
+
+Botan is a C++ class library for performing a wide variety of cryptographic
+operations, including encryption, hashing, authentication, public key
+encryption and signatures, and creating and using X.509v3 certificates and
+CRLs. PKCS #8 private keys (including PKCS #5 encryption) and PKCS #10
+certificate requests are also included. As well as various modes, padding
+schemes, and so forth, Botan supports the following basic cryptographic
+algorithms:
+
+* Public Key Algorithms: Diffie-Hellman, DSA, ElGamal, Nyberg-Rueppel,
+    Rabin-Williams, RSA
+
+* Block Ciphers: AES, Blowfish, CAST-128, CAST-256, DES/DESX/TripleDES, GOST,
+    IDEA, KASUMI, Lion, Luby-Rackoff, MARS, MISTY1, RC2, RC5, RC6, SAFER-SK,
+    SEED, Serpent, Skipjack, Square, TEA, Twofish, XTEA
+
+* Stream Ciphers: ARC4, WiderWake4+1, Turing
+
+* Hash Functions: HAS-160, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160,
+    SHA-160, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Tiger, Whirlpool
+
+* MACs: ANSI X9.19 MAC, CMAC, HMAC
+
+For build instructions, read 'doc/building.pdf'. The license can be found in
+'doc/license.txt', and the ChangeLog is in 'doc/log.txt'.
+
+Check http://botan.randombit.net/ for announcements and news. If you'll be
+developing code using Botan, consider joining the mailing lists; links to
+subscriptions forms and the archives can be found on the web page. Feel free to
+contact me with any questions or comments.
+
+Regards,
+   Jack Lloyd ([email protected])