CalcChecksum README
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Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004
	Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

 Project homepage:

http://calcchecksum.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu/

 Description:

With CalcChecksum you can calculate these checksums 
(hashes) on files and strings:

* MD5, MD4

* CRC32

* SHA160 (SHA1), SHA256, SHA384, SHA512

* RIPE-MD160

* HAVAL 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 with 3, 4 or 5 passes

This program is useful for checking downloaded files 
easily with a GUI and your mouse. I think it doesn't 
need more description, because it describes itself. 
Just try it, to see if it's useful for you.

 Minimum systemrequirements:

* a recent linux version (It's not tested on other 
  Un*ces like FreeBSD, but I think it'll run on these 
  systems, too.)

* QT 3.1

* KDE 3.1

* a recent gcc compiler.

It should run on all systems, that are able to run 
XFree86, KDE and QT.

 Compiling / installing:

Please look at the generic installation instructions in 
the file INSTALL.

 License:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Note that the only valid version of the GPL for this program is version 2
(*not* any earlier or later version).
I do not guarantee, that the checksums, calculated by this software,
are always correct!

For more information just look into the file COPYING.

 About:

CalcChecksum uses very much code from libmhash and libgcrypt.
Thanks to the developers of the code!
You helped me very much with your code, to
write the application.
This derived code is Copyrighted by their Authors as declared
in the sourcecode files.
