README

INSTALLATION
============
Installation is pretty easy.

- ./configure
- Check Makefile.settings
- make
- make install


BACKGROUNDS
===========

The background of Rotix is a newsgroup where people liked to make jokes with
rot-xx obfuscations. At one point translating it by hand became to much of a
bother and I wrote rot, to do this for me.

rot was kind of a personal project and very primitive. I didn't bother much
for an interface, since I was the only person to use it. rot was a very
handy tool, but if I wanted to translate more than one line of text, it
would become annoying. So a new version was due.

At that time I was getting interested in Open-Source Software and in
releasing software. I wanted to do something back to the community who gave
me so much. Of course the project had to have a name: Rotix, derived from
the Dutch pronunciation of ROT-x. Rotix 0.7 was the result of this.


WEBSITE
=======

Of course Rotix has a website. You may even have downloaded this package
from it. The website contains an HTML-version of the Rotix man-page and some
of the cryptographic theories behind Rotix. The address is:

http://elektron.its.tudelft.nl/~hemmin98/rotix.html


LEGAL
=====

Rotix is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). See the
file COPYING for this license.

	Rotix - A program to generate rotational obfuscations
	Copyright (C) 2001  Sjoerd Hemminga

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
	(at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
	WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
	General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
	Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
	USA