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    1 Zebedee Secure Tunnel
    2 =====================
    3 
    4 THIS IS THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT RELEASE.
    5 THE LATEST STABLE RELEASE IS 2.4.1.
    6 
    7 Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed
    8 "tunnel" for TCP/IP or UDP traffic between two systems. This
    9 allows data from, for example, telnet, ftp and X sessions to be
   10 protected from snooping. You can also use compression, either
   11 with or without data encryption, to gain performance over
   12 low-bandwidth networks.
   13 
   14 The main goals for Zebedee are to:
   15 
   16  * Provide client and server functionality under both UNIX/Linux
   17    and Windows.
   18 
   19  * Be easy to install, use and maintain with little or no
   20    configuration required.
   21 
   22  * Have a small footprint, low wire protocol overhead and
   23    give significant traffic reduction by the use of
   24    compression.
   25 
   26  * Use only algorithms that are either unpatented or for
   27    which the patent has expired.
   28 
   29  * Be entirely free for commercial or non-commercial use and
   30    distributed under the term of the GNU General Public
   31    Licence (see LICENCE.txt for details).
   32 
   33 For further information on how to use Zebedee see the file
   34 zebedee.html in the distribution (or the manual page for
   35 zebedee(1) under UNIX -- it is basically the same text). Example
   36 configuration files are also provided.
   37 
   38 Versions of Zebedee in the 2.4.x series are stable, "production"
   39 versions. The development series, containing new features, but
   40 less well tested is numbered 2.5.x.
   41 
   42 Building Zebedee
   43 ----------------
   44 
   45 For instructions on how to build Zebedee see the file
   46 BUILDING.txt in the distribution.
   47 
   48 Special Notes for Windows Installations
   49 ---------------------------------------
   50 
   51 The installation on Windows systems creates a Start Menu entry
   52 that contains an icon to start a Zebedee server. If you select
   53 this menu entry Zebedee will take its configuration information
   54 from the file "server.zbd" in the Zebedee installation directory.
   55 You MUST edit this file before you can do anything useful with
   56 Zebedee. The "out of the box" configuration is deliberately
   57 as secure as possible and will not allow you create any tunnels
   58 to the server without you explicitly enabling them.
   59 
   60 The Zebedee service is not installed automatically. If you want
   61 to run Zebedee as a service you must use the "-Sinstall" option
   62 from the command-line.
   63 
   64 Zebedee clients will probably, in general, be started from the
   65 command line. However, a file-type association is created by
   66 theinstallation for files of type ".zbd". This can be used to
   67 launch Zebedee clients automatically from Explorer or elsewhere
   68 -- provided that all the necessary information is contained
   69 within the configuration file.
   70 
   71 Neil Winton, 2003/07/02