diff --git a/README b/README index d38b331a..ae5979f9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,26 +1,19 @@ -Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) version 2.1.0 -------------------------------------------------- -Date: November 6th, 2014 -Website: http://delta.affinix.com/qca/ -Mailing List: Delta Project <delta@lists.affinix.com> +Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) +----------------------------------- -Project Lead/Maintainer (2003-current): - Justin Karneges <justin@affinix.com> - (March 2007 - August 2007 under Barracuda Networks employment) +Description +----------- -Development, Documentation, Unittests (2004-2009): - Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> + QCA is a library that provides an easy API for a range of cryptographic + features, including SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, SASL, OpenPGP, smartcards, + and much more. -Development (2013-current) - Ivan Romanov <drizt@land.ru> + Functionality is supplied via plugins. This is useful for avoiding + dependence on a particular crypto library and makes upgrading easier, + as there is no need to recompile your application when adding or + upgrading a crypto plugin. -Special Thanks: - Portugal Telecom (SAPO division), for sponsorship - Alon Bar-Lev, for smart card and design assistance - Jack Lloyd, for Botan and X.509 mentoring - L. Peter Deutsch, for the public domain MD5 implementation - Steve Reid, for the public domain SHA1 implementation - Jason Kim, for the CMS Signer graphics + In order for QCA to be of much use, you'll want to install some plugins. Install @@ -34,8 +27,16 @@ License the COPYING file for more information. -Changes +History ------- + +QCA was originally created to support the security needs of the +Psi XMPP/Jabber client project ( http://psi-im.org/ ). + + +Old Changes list +---------------- + New in 2.1.0 - Ported to Qt5 (Qt4 also supported) - New building system. CMake instead of qmake @@ -90,25 +91,23 @@ Changes - Windows version can be configured/installed using paths with spaces -Description ------------ +Old Developer list +------------------ - QCA is a library that provides an easy API for a range of cryptographic - features, including SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, SASL, OpenPGP, smartcards, - and much more. +Project Lead/Maintainer (2003-2012): + Justin Karneges <justin@affinix.com> + (March 2007 - August 2007 under Barracuda Networks employment) - Functionality is supplied via plugins. This is useful for avoiding - dependence on a particular crypto library and makes upgrading easier, - as there is no need to recompile your application when adding or - upgrading a crypto plugin. +Development, Documentation, Unittests (2004-2009): + Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> - In order for QCA to be of much use, you'll want to install some plugins. +Development (2013-2017) + Ivan Romanov <drizt@land.ru> - QCA was originally created to support the security needs of the - Psi XMPP/Jabber client project ( http://psi-im.org/ ). - - API Documentation is located in the 'apidocs' subdirectory. - - -Have fun, --Justin +Special Thanks: + Portugal Telecom (SAPO division), for sponsorship + Alon Bar-Lev, for smart card and design assistance + Jack Lloyd, for Botan and X.509 mentoring + L. Peter Deutsch, for the public domain MD5 implementation + Steve Reid, for the public domain SHA1 implementation + Jason Kim, for the CMS Signer graphics