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This copyright applies only to this software distribution package

as a compilation, and does not imply a copyright on any particular

file in the package.

All individual files in this compilation are placed in the public domain by

Wei Dai and other contributors.

I would like to thank the following authors for placing their works into

the public domain:

Joan Daemen - 3way.cpp

Leonard Janke - cast.cpp, seal.cpp

Steve Reid - cast.cpp

Phil Karn - des.cpp

Andrew M. Kuchling - md2.cpp, md4.cpp

Colin Plumb - md5.cpp

Seal Woods - rc6.cpp

Chris Morgan - rijndael.cpp

Paulo Baretto - rijndael.cpp, skipjack.cpp, square.cpp

Richard De Moliner - safer.cpp

Matthew Skala - twofish.cpp

Kevin Springle - camellia.cpp, shacal2.cpp, ttmac.cpp, whrlpool.cpp, ripemd.cpp

Ronny Van Keer - sha3.cpp

The Crypto++ Library (as a compilation) is currently licensed under the Boost

Software License 1.0 (http://www.boost.org/users/license.html).

Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization

obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by

this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,

execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the

Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to

do so, all subject to the following:

The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including

the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,

must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and

all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative

works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by

a source language processor.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT

SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE

FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,

ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER

DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.