$Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2005/01/15 11:07:14 ronys Exp $



Introduction:

=============

Password Safe is a password database utility. Like many other such

products, commercial and otherwise, it stores your passwords in an

encrypted file, allowing you to remember only one password (the "safe

combination"), instead of all the username/password combinations that

you use.



What makes Password Safe different? Three things:

1. Simplicity: Password Safe is designed to do one thing, and to do it

well. Start the application, enter your "combination", double-click on

the right entry - presto - the password is now on your clipboard,ready

for pasting.

2. Security: The original version was designed and written by Bruce

Schneier - 'nuff said.

3. Open Source: The source code for the project is available for

inspection. For more information, see http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net



Password Safe currently runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and

XP, as well as Microsoft's PocketPC. Support for additional platforms

is planned for future releases. 



Downloading:

============

The latest & greatest version of Password Safe may be downloaded from

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019



Non-English Versions:

=====================

A French version of the help file may be found in

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/pwsafefr.zip (Thanks to Laurent

Masson).



A Russian version of the help file may be found in

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/pwsaferu.zip (Thanks to Maxim

Tikhonov). 



A German version of the help file may be found in

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/pwsafege.zip (Thanks to Sebastian

Juergens).



An Italian version of the help file may be found in

http://home.datacomm.ch/winzozz/passwordsafe.htm (Thanks to Stefano)



Kimmo 'Yodakoski' Koskinen has translated both the help file and the

entire PasswordSafe (version 2.07) application to Finnish! These may

be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/7yqdv and

http://tinyurl.com/5z3h3, respectively. The source files are available

from http://tinyurl.com/5wt66. 



If anyone is interested in doing such work in other

languages, please let me (https://sourceforge.net/users/ronys) know.



Installation:

=============

Nothing special. No "Setup", no dependencies, no annoying wizard, no

need to sacrifice a goat and/or reboot your computer. Just extract the

files (using WinZip, for example) to any directory, double-click on

the Pwsafe.exe icon,and that's it. "Advanced" users may want to

create a shortcut to their desktop and/or Start menu.



License:

========

Password Safe is available under the restrictions set forth in the

standard "Artistic License". For more details, see the LICENSE file

that comes with the package.



Helping Out:

============

Please report bugs via the project's bug tracking form, at

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41019&atid=429579 (you might

want to browse the list, to see if the issue hasn't been reported

already).



Requests for features and enhancements should be submitted to the RFE

(Request For Enhancements) page, at

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=41019&atid=429582



You can also post questions, suggestions, rants, raves, etc. to the

Help or Open Discussion forums, at

https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=41019



If you wish to contribute to the project by writing code and/or

documentation, please drop a note to the developer's mailing list:



http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-devel



New releases are announced on the passwordsafe-announce mailing list:



http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/passwordsafe-announce)



Last but not least: PasswordSafe is and will always remain an open

source project, free for and redistribution. However, donations to the

project will help me justify the time and effort I spend in

maintaining and improving this utility. In addtion, donations to the

project help maintain SourceForge, the hosting site. If you wish to

donate, please follow this link:

https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=41019



Release Notes:

==============

For information on the latest features, bugfixes and known problems,

see the ReleaseNotes.txt file that comes with the package.



Credits:

========

- The original version of Password Safe was written by Mark Rosen,

and was freely downloadable from Conterpane Lab's website. Thanks to

Mark for writing a great little application! Following Mark, it was

maintained by "AYB", at Counterpane. Thanks to Counterpane for

deciding to open source the project.

- Jim Russell first brought the code to SourceForge, did some major

cleaning up of the code, set up a nice project and added some minor

features in release 1.9.0

- The current release has been brought to you by: Andrew Mullican,

Edward Quackenbush, Gregg Conklin, Graham Ullrich, and Rony

Shapiro. Karel (Karlo) Van der Gucht also contributed some of the

password policy code and some GUI improvements for 1.92.

- Emilijan Mirceski did the new graphics for 2.0.

- Maxim Tikhonov translated the online help to Russian.

- Finally, thanks to the folks at SourceForge for hosting this

project.



$Log: README.txt,v $
Revision 1.9  2005/01/15 11:07:14  ronys
Update non-English list, add reference to donations.

Revision 1.8  2004/11/24 16:21:13  ronys
Added link to Italian help, plus unix2dos'ed


Revision 1.7  2004/09/25 08:04:31  ronys

Added pointer to French help file.



Revision 1.6  2004/03/31 04:44:31  ronys

Announce availability of German version of online help



Revision 1.5  2004/02/17 21:11:06  ronys

Updated for 2.0



Revision 1.4  2003/05/28 08:29:04  ronys

Corrected credits



Revision 1.3  2003/05/14 14:49:55  ronys

post-1.92 merge into main trunk



Revision 1.2.2.1  2003/05/13 13:40:13  ronys

1.92 release



Revision 1.2  2003/04/30 13:20:14  ronys

Listed supported platforms



Revision 1.1  2003/04/29 14:22:32  ronys

First versions of README and Release Notes under CVS for 1.91

