7/31/03
Version 1.1

Welcome to Internet2's Shibboleth

Shibboleth is a federated authentication and authorization system based on
SAML being developed by Internet2 and MACE.

Please review the terms described in the LICENSE file before using this
code. It is similar to the Apache 1.1 license.

A wealth of information about Shibboleth can be found at
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

Shibboleth is divided into both origin and target side components, with the
origin in Java and the target in C and C++. Some target functionality can be
used from Java with additional programming.

Source and binary distributions are available from
http://wayf.internet2.edu/shibboleth/

A CVS is available for anonymous access, as described at the Shibboleth
site. Mailing lists and a bugzilla (http://bugzilla.internet2.edu/) are also
available. Not all of the lists are open, but a general support list is
available and is open.

For basic information on installing binaries and deploying Shibboleth, see the
Deploy Guides in this directory. For source build assistance, see the
INSTALL.txt file.

Acknowledgements:
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We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that make up
portions of this software:

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software
Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

This project uses libraries covered by the Lesser GNU Public License.
Source code for these libraries is available on request.

This project includes software developed by the National Research Council 
of Canada.