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+TrustBridge
+-----------
+
+Copyright (C) 2014 by Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
+Software engineering by Intevation GmbH
+
+This file is Free Software under the GNU GPL (v>=2)
+and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!
+See LICENSE.txt for details.
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+TrustBridge is a is a root certificate installer for Windows and Linux,
+contracted by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
+It should be able to be installed with or without root access rights.
+
+The orignal target platforms are Windows NT > 6.0 (Vista and later) and
+Ubuntu GNU/Linux 14.4 both 32 and 64 bit.
+
+Certificates are installed under Windows in the Windows System store and
+using the Mozilla NSS library into the certificate databases used by
+firefox and thunderbird.
+
+Under GNU/Linux the NSS-Shared DB, used for example by Chrome(ium) is
+accessed additionally to the Thunderbird and Firefox stores.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+See the file INSTALL for build instructions for Linux and Windows.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+For API documentation build the target "doc" (requires doxygen).
+For additional information or custom modifications please contact:
+
+Intevation GmbH <intevation@intevation.de>
+Neuer Graben 17
+49074 Osnabrück, Germany
+
+The development homepage can be found at:
+
+https://wald.intevation.org/projects/trustbridge/