[Dnp-code] initial release 0.0.1

[Carl <ct...@tu...>]

General 
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Release 0.0.1 is a pre-alpha release to prototype the proposed DNP 
Secure Authentication specification. 
 
One of the design goals for this release is that the code should be as 
OS independent as possible. Thus Qt4 was chosen as the GUI toolkit 
and IP networking was chosen for the communications method. The core 
DNP protocol code does not rely on Qt4 or have other OS dependencies. 
 
DNP Support 
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UDP is the only networking currently supported and serial ports are 
not yet supported. The DNP Master code is not fully subset level 1 
compliant, yet supports subset level 1 objects and should be able to 
communicate with a subset level 1 outstation. The DNP Outstation code 
can simulate some very basic outstation responses. 
 
Secure Authentication 
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The basic features of secure authentication are demonstrated in this 
working prototype. Aggressive mode and some timer related 
functionality is not yet complete.


Carl