Scatterchat-module v1.02
(C) Copyright 2002-2006  J. Salvatore Testa II  [jtesta aT hacktivismo d0t com]


Scatterchat-module is a high-level cryptographic library.  With it, any
one-to-one communications protocol (either open-source or proprietary) can be
secured with minimal effort through an STDIN/STDOUT or shared library
interface.

Key features include:
    * Cross-platform availability: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX.
    * Message and file encryption.
    * Perfect Forward Secrecy.
    * Replay attack immunity.
    * Limited resistence to traffic analysis.

See the docs/ directory for developer documentation.
See the tests/ directory for code examples using this library.

Install instructions are in INSTALL.


A note on licensing issues:
    This library is licensed under the Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software
Agreement (HESSLA).  If you wish to use this library from non-HESSLA code,
you can build an executable version of the module and interact with it via
an external STDIN/STDOUT interface; this will avoid all licensing conflicts.
    There is also a shared-library interface.  Be warned that some people do
not believe that HESSLA code and (say) GPL code can be dynamicly linked
together without a license conflict.  I personally do not see dynamic linking
as a problem; feel free to do this as much as you like as long as you respect
the dynamic library's autonomy.
    I am open to the possibility of re-licensing parts of this library to GPL,
BSD, public domain, or some other license.  I cannot make any promises, but I
will try to accomodate reasonable requests.
