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1 TrustBridge
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2 ===========
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4 Copyright (C) 2014 by Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
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5 Software engineering by Intevation GmbH
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7 This file is Free Software under the GNU GPL (v>=2)
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8 and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!
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9 See LICENSE.txt for details.
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12 Introduction
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13 ------------
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14 TrustBridge is a is a root certificate installer for Windows and Linux,
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15 contracted by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
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16 It should be able to be installed with or without root access rights.
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18 The orignal target platforms are Windows NT > 6.0 (Vista and later) and
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19 Ubuntu GNU/Linux 14.4 both 32 and 64 bit.
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21 Certificates are installed under Windows in the Windows System store and
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22 using the Mozilla NSS library into the certificate databases used by
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23 firefox and thunderbird.
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25 Under GNU/Linux the NSS-Shared DB, used for example by Chrome(ium) is
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26 accessed additionally to the Thunderbird and Firefox stores.
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29 Installation
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30 ------------
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31 See the file INSTALL for build instructions for Linux and Windows.
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34 Documentation
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35 -------------
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36 For API documentation build the target "doc" (requires doxygen).
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38 The (German) user help documentation is available in the TrustBridge
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39 client/admin application. The source files are placed in "doc/help".
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42 License
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43 -------
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44 The TrustBridge source code is licensed under GNU GPL v>=2.
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46 The full TrustBridge software package (with all integrated Free
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47 Software components) is licensed under GNU GPL v==3.
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49 See licenses/README.txt for more information.
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53 -------
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54 For additional information or custom modifications please contact:
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58 49074 Osnabrück, Germany
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60 The public development platform can be found at:
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61 https://wald.intevation.org/projects/trustbridge/

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