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+Welcome
+========================================
+
+Botan is a crypto library for C++ released under the permissive
+:doc:`BSD-2 license <license>`.
+
+It provides useful things like SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, ECDSA,
+AES, GCM, and bcrypt, plus a kitchen sink of crypto algorithms of
+various utility. A third party open source implementation of `SSHv2
+<http://www.netsieben.com/products/ssh/>`_ that uses botan is also
+available. In addition to C++ you can use botan from Python or Perl
+(both included in tree), or with `Node.js
+<https://github.com/justinfreitag/node-botan>`_.
+
+See the :doc:`faq` for a list of common questions and answers and
+:doc:`download` for information about getting the latest release.
+
+If you need help or have questions, send a mail to the `development
+mailing list
+<http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/botan-devel/>`_.
+Patches, "philosophical" bug reports, announcements of programs using
+the library, and related topics are also welcome. If you find what you
+believe to be a bug, please file a ticket in `Bugzilla
+<http://bugs.randombit.net/>`_.
+
+The `manual <http://botan.randombt.net>`_ and
+`Doxygen reference <http://botan.randombit.net/doxygen>`_ for
+the most recent revision is available online.
+