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OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon

Copyright (C) 2002-2009 OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. 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.

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For the latest version of OpenVPN, go to:

	http://openvpn.net/

To Build and Install,

	./configure
	make
	make install

or see the file INSTALL for more info.

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For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page
  http://openvpn.net/man.html

For a sample VPN configuration, see
  http://openvpn.net/howto.html

For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol,
  see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution.

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Other Files & Directories:

* INSTALL-win32.txt -- installation instructions
  for Windows

* configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure
  script and makefile.

* openvpn.spec -- RPM Spec file
  To build an OpenVPN binary RPM, use the command:

	rpmbuild -tb [tarball]

  When you install the binary RPM, it will automatically
  install sample-scripts/openvpn.init (see below)

* sample-scripts/openvpn.init

  A sample init script for OpenVPN.  See the file for
  comments and additional information.

* sample-scripts/verify-cn

  A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's
  --tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication
  test on embedded X509 certificate fields.

* sample-keys/

  Sample RSA keys and certificates.  DON'T USE THESE FILES
  FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.

* sample-config-files/

  A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from
  the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html

* easy-rsa/

  A simple guide to RSA key management, scripts included.
  Also see http://openvpn.net/easyrsa.html