Botan: Version 1.3.6, December 7, 2003

  This is an experimental DEVELOPMENT release of Botan, which may contain
  serious bugs. Unless you are an experienced user, consider using the most
  recent stable version (1.2.8) instead.

Botan currently includes the following 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, Lion, Luby-Rackoff, MISTY1, RC2, RC5, RC6, SAFER-SK, Serpent,
    Skipjack, Square, TEA, Twofish, XTEA
* Stream Ciphers: ARC4, ISAAC, SEAL, WiderWake4+1
* Hash Functions: HAS-160, HAVAL, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160,
    SHA-160, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Tiger, Whirlpool
* MACs: ANSI X9.19 MAC, HMAC, OMAC, SSL3-MAC

In addition, there is support for many cryptographic standards, including
various IEEE, ISO, ANSI, FIPS, and PKCS standards, such as X.509v3, PKCS
#1/#3/#5/#8/#10, and ANSI X9.19, among others.

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 news and new versions. If you have any
questions, comments, or requests, send mail. Also highly recommended is joining
the mailing lists - links to the archives and subscriptions forms can be found
on the main web page. Feel free to contact me via email with any questions or
comments.

Regards,
  Jack Lloyd (lloyd@randombit.net)
