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+libdcp
+======
+
+Hello.
+
+
+Acknowledgements
+================
+
+Wolfgang Woehl's cinemaslides was most informative on the
+nasty details of encryption.
+
+
+Building
+========
+
+    ./waf configure
+    ./waf
+    sudo ./waf install
+
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+boost filesystem, signals2 and unit testing libraries
+openssl
+libsigc++
+libxml++
+xmlsec
+openjpeg (1.5.0 or above)
+
+
+Documentation
+=============
+
+Run doxygen in the top-level directory and then see build/doc/html/index.html.
+
+There are some examples in the examples/ directory.