
        OpenCDK - Open Crypto Development Kit v0.3
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This library provides basic parts of the OpenPGP message format.
For reference, please read the rfc2440.txt in the doc/ directory.
Due to some possible security problems, the library also implements
parts of draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis-06.txt. If you want to exchange
messages with earlier PGP version < 7, you should use the compat mode.

The aim of the library is *not* to replace any available OpenPGP version.
There will be no real support for key management (sign, revoke,
alter preferences, ...) and some other parts are only rudimentary
available. The main purpose is to handle and understand OpenPGP
packets and to use basic operations. For example to encrypt/decrypt
or to sign/verify and packet routines.

Hint: Because of the fact that sentensive data is used, the library
      doesn't contain any real cryptographic code. For all crypto
      routines we referring to the Libgcrypt library!


In the doc/ directory, you can find a HTML-API overview. In the tests/
directory, you can find some regressions tests and the MinPG example.
MinPG is a detailed example how to use the lib and the various functions.


Libraries you'll also need for using all parts:
libzlib   - ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/zlib/
libgcrypt - ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt
