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  LEGAL
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Cifer is Copyright (C) 2008 Simrun Basuita & Daniel Richman

Cifer is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Cifer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Cifer.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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  AUTHORS
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Cifer was written by:

Simrun Basuita <simrunbasuita@googlemail.com>
Daniel Richman <danieljonathanrichman@googlemail.com>

Feel free to mail us with bugs, feature requests, or even if you found our
software useful! It's always nice to know that our hard work has helped
somebody out ;)

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  INFO
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Cifer provides many functions designed to aid in cracking classical
ciphers; a group of ciphers used historically, but which have now
fallen into disuse because of their suceptability to ciphertext-only
attacks. In general, they were designed and implemented by hand, and
operate on an alphabet of letters (such as [A-Z]).

It operates using text files as input and output, and can perform both brute
force and other, more sophisticated, attacks against many classic encryption
schemes. In addition, it provides many utilities such as frequency analysis
and automated encryption/decryption of texts.

For more information, view the manpages:

$ man manpages/cifer.1
$ man manpages/cifer-dict.1

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  INSTALLATION
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You must have libreadline installed prior to building cifer. For example, on
Debian systems:

$ sudo apt-get install libreadline5

Quick start:

$ make -B CFLAGS=-O2 all
$ sudo make install

For more detailed instructions on building, installing, cleaning and other
Makefile usage, see the file INSTALL.

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