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Zebedee Secure Tunnel ===================== THIS IS THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT RELEASE. THE LATEST STABLE RELEASE IS 2.4.1. Zebedee is a simple program to establish an encrypted, compressed "tunnel" for TCP/IP or UDP traffic between two systems. This allows data from, for example, telnet, ftp and X sessions to be protected from snooping. You can also use compression, either with or without data encryption, to gain performance over low-bandwidth networks. The main goals for Zebedee are to: * Provide client and server functionality under both UNIX/Linux and Windows. * Be easy to install, use and maintain with little or no configuration required. * Have a small footprint, low wire protocol overhead and give significant traffic reduction by the use of compression. * Use only algorithms that are either unpatented or for which the patent has expired. * Be entirely free for commercial or non-commercial use and distributed under the term of the GNU General Public Licence (see LICENCE.txt for details). For further information on how to use Zebedee see the file zebedee.html in the distribution (or the manual page for zebedee(1) under UNIX -- it is basically the same text). Example configuration files are also provided. Versions of Zebedee in the 2.4.x series are stable, "production" versions. The development series, containing new features, but less well tested is numbered 2.5.x. Building Zebedee ---------------- For instructions on how to build Zebedee see the file BUILDING.txt in the distribution. Special Notes for Windows Installations --------------------------------------- The installation on Windows systems creates a Start Menu entry that contains an icon to start a Zebedee server. If you select this menu entry Zebedee will take its configuration information from the file "server.zbd" in the Zebedee installation directory. You MUST edit this file before you can do anything useful with Zebedee. The "out of the box" configuration is deliberately as secure as possible and will not allow you create any tunnels to the server without you explicitly enabling them. The Zebedee service is not installed automatically. If you want to run Zebedee as a service you must use the "-Sinstall" option from the command-line. Zebedee clients will probably, in general, be started from the command line. However, a file-type association is created by theinstallation for files of type ".zbd". This can be used to launch Zebedee clients automatically from Explorer or elsewhere -- provided that all the necessary information is contained within the configuration file. Neil Winton, 2003/07/02
