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-       ====== THIS IS WORK IN PROGESS ======
-
-       DO NOT USE IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT!
-
-         THERE MIGHT BE SECURITY PROBLEMS!
-
-The source may change quite often and may have serious problems; it
-may even not compile on some machines.
-
-It will probably needs GCC and GLIBC to build due to some debugging
-code.  Please don't complain if it does not work on other machines.
-We will make it work again later.
-
-The specification for the OpenPGP smartcard application will be
-released soon and we will try to make cards easily available.
-