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+Copyright (C) 2016 Southern Storm Software, Pty Ltd.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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+
+Noise-Java Library
+==================
+
+Noise-Java is a plain Java implementation of the
+[Noise Protocol](http://noiseprotocol.org), intended as a
+reference implementation.  The code is distributed under the
+terms of the MIT license.
+
+This library is written in plain Java, making use of the Java Cryptography
+Extension (JCE) to provide cryptographic primitives and infrastructure.
+Where a primitive is not normally present in standard JDK's, Noise-Java
+provides fallback implementations.  It is assumed that the platform JDK
+has the following providers built-in:
+
+ * SHA-256
+ * SHA-512
+ * AES/GCM/NoPadding
+
+If AES/GCM/NoPadding is not available, then the Noise-Java library will
+emulate GCM on top of AES/CTR/NoPadding using a custom GHASH implementation.
+If CTR mode isn't available either, then the "AESGCM" cipher cannot be used.
+
+All other cryptographic primitives are emulated with plain Java
+reference implementations: ChaChaPoly, BLAKE2s, BLAKE2b, Curve25519,
+and Curve448.
+
+If you have better implementations of the cryptographic primitives
+available, you can modify the createDH(), createCipher(), and
+createHash() functions in the "Noise" class to integrate your versions.
+
+The [documentation](http://rweather.github.com/noise-java/index.html)
+contains more information on the library, examples, and how to build it.
+
+For more information on this library, to report bugs, to contribute,
+or to suggest improvements, please contact the author Rhys Weatherley via
+[email](mailto:rhys.weatherley@gmail.com).