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EraseDrop 1.0 (2005-07-30)
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CONTENTS

1. LEGAL
   1.1. Copyright
   1.2. License agreement and Disclaimer
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3. HOW TO INSTALL/UNINSTALL
   3.1. Before installing
   3.2. Installing
   3.3. Uininstalling
4. DESCRIPTION
5. AUTHOR
   5.1. Website

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1. LEGAL

   1.1. Copyright

        EraseDrop Copyright (C) 2005  Righteous Technologies. 
	All Rights Reserved.

	Eraser Library (DLL)

          Copyright (C) 2002-2003  Garrett Trant (gtrant@heidi.ie).
	  Copyright (C) 1997-2002  Sami Tolvanen (sami@tolvanen.com)

	Boost Libraries (shared_ptr.hpp/cpp)

	  (C) Copyright Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes 1998, 1999.
	  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003 Peter Dimov

        All registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned in
        this document are the property of their respective
        holders.

   1.2. License agreement and Disclaimer

        EraseDrop / Eraser Library (DLL)

        This program is free software; you can redistribute it
        and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
        Public License as published by the Free Software
        Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
        option) any later version.

	This program 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.

        You should have received a copy of the GNU General
        Public License along with this program; if not, write to
        the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place -
        Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.


	Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any 
	person or organization obtaining a copy of the software 
	and accompanying documentation covered by this license 
	(the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
	execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare 
	derivative works of the Software, and to permit third-parties 
	to whom the Software is furnished to do so, all subject to 
	the following:

	The copyright notices in the Software and this entire 
	statement, including the above license grant, this restriction 
	and the following disclaimer, must be included in all copies of 
	the Software, in whole or in part, and all derivative works of 
	the Software, unless such copies or derivative works are solely 
	in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
	a source language processor.

	THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY 
	KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE 
	WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, 
	TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT 
	HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY 
	DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR 
	OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
	SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

   Windows 2000/XP or better is required.
   Windows 95/98/ME/NT4 systems are NOT supported.

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3. HOW TO INSTALL/UNINSTALL

   3.1. Before installing

   	Be sure to uninstall any previous version of EraseDrop
	before installing. Also make sure you have the required
	libraries installed before running setup.

   3.2. Installing

	erasedrop_setup.exe is a self-extracting executable 
	containing the program files and the source code.

	Run erasedrop_setup.exe to install EraseDrop. The setup 
	program will extract the files and copy them to a desired
	location.

   3.3. Uninstalling

	You can uninstall EraseDrop via Control Panel 
	(Add/Remove programs). You should not remove the files
	manually as some of the program entries would remain 
	on your system.

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4. DESCRIPTION

   EraseDrop for Windows. Secure data removal with simple drag 
   'n drop interface.

   EraseDrop uses the Eraser library for erasing data securely.
   Please visit http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ for more information.

   "The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter
   Gutmann's paper 'Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and
   Solid-State Memory' and they are selected to effectively
   remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk making it
   impossible to recover the data.

   Other methods include the one defined in the National
   Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US
   Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudo-random data
   up to one hundred times." -- excerpted from Eraser's description

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5. AUTHOR

   The maintainer of this product is Toni Gndogdu.
   For more information please visit http://www.righteoustech.com/.

   The maintainer of the Eraser product is Garrett Trant.
   For more information visit http://www.heidi.ie/.

   5.1. Website

	You can download the latest version of EraseDrop
	at the official website:

	http://www.righteoustech.com/


	You can download the latest version of Eraser and
	the source code at the Eraser website:

	http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

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