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 secnet - flexible VPN software
 
-* Copying
-
-secnet is
-  Copyright 1995-2003 Stephen Early <steve@greenend.org.uk>
-  Copyright 2002-2014 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
-  Copyright 1991      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-  Copyright 1998      Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, Lars Knudsen
-  Copyright 1993      Colin Plumb
-  Copyright 1998      James H. Brown, Steve Reid
-  Copyright 2000      Vincent Rijmen, Antoon Bosselaers, Paulo Barreto
-  Copyright 2001      Saul Kravitz
-  Copyright 2004      Fabrice Bellard
-  Copyright 2002      Guido Draheim
-  Copyright 2005-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-  Copyright 1995-2001 Jonathan Amery
-  Copyright 1995-2003 Peter Benie
-  Copyright 2011      Richard Kettlewell
-  Copyright 2012      Matthew Vernon
-  Copyright 2013-2019 Mark Wooding
-  Copyright 1995-2013 Simon Tatham
-
-secnet is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
-License, version 3 or later.  Some individual files have more
-permissive licences; where this is the case, it is documented in the
-header comment for the files in question.
-
-secnet 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.
-
-The file COPYING contains a copy of the GNU GPL v3.
+See LICENCE for legal information and CREDITS for a list of
+contributors.
 
 
 * Introduction
@@ -403,8 +373,6 @@ site: dict argument
   key (sigpubkey closure): our peer's public key (obsolete)
   transform (transform closure): how to mangle packets sent between sites
   dh (dh closure)
-  hash (hash closure): used for keys whose algorithm (or public
-    or private key file) does not imply the hash function
   key-lifetime (integer): max lifetime of a session key, in ms
     [one hour; mobile: 2 days]
   setup-retries (integer): max number of times to transmit a key negotiation
@@ -577,6 +545,15 @@ priv-cache: dict argument
   privkey-max (integer): optional, maximum size of private key
     file in bytes. [4095]
 
+** pubkeys
+
+Defines:
+  make-public (closure => sigpubkey closure)
+
+make-public: (
+  arg1: sigscheme name
+  arg2: base91s encoded public key data, according to algorithm
+
 ** rsa
 
 Defines:
@@ -597,6 +574,11 @@ rsa-public: string,string
   arg1: encryption key (decimal)
   arg2: modulus (decimal)
 
+The sigscheme is hardcoded to use sha1.  Both rsa-private and
+rsa-public look for the following config key in their context:
+  hash (hash closure): hash function [sha1]
+
+
 ** dh
 
 Defines:
@@ -634,3 +616,11 @@ readfile: string
 map:
   applies the closure specified as arg1 to each of the elements in the list.
   Returns a list made up of the outputs of the closure.
+
+
+* Legal
+
+This file is part of secnet.
+See LICENCE and CREDITS for full list of copyright holders.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+There is NO WARRANTY.