March 17, 2008
Version 2.0

Welcome to Internet2's Shibboleth

Shibboleth is a federated web authentication and attribute exchange system
based on SAML developed by Internet2 and MACE.

Please review the terms described in the LICENSE.txt file before using this
code. It is now the Apache 2.0 license.

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

Shibboleth is divided into identity and service provider components, with the
IdP in Java and the SP in C and C++.

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

SVN is available for anonymous access, as described at the Shibboleth
site. Mailing lists and a bug database (https://bugs.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, refer
to the web site and Wiki for the latest documentation. For source build assistance,
see the INSTALL.txt file and the Wiki.