Congratulations! You have purchased  an extremely fine device that would give
you thousands of years of  trouble-free service,  except that you undoubtably
will destroy it via some typical  bonehead consumer maneuver. Which is why we
ask you to PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE  READ THIS OWNER'S  MANUAL  CAREFULLY BEFORE
YOU UNPACK THE DEVICE.YOU ALREADY UNPACKED IT, DIDN'T YOU?YOU UNPACKED IT AND
PLUGGED IT IN AND TURNED IT ON AND FIDDLED WITH THE KNOBS,AND NOW YOUR CHILD,
THE  SAME  CHILD  WHO  ONCE  SHOVED A POLISH SAUSAGE  INTO YOUR VIDEOCASSETTE
RECORDER  AND SET IT ON "FAST FORWARD", THIS CHILD  ALSO IS FIDDLING WITH THE
KNOBS, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT???
WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST BREAK THESE DEVICES RIGHT AT THE FACTORY BEFORE WE SHIP
THEM OUT, YOU KNOW THAT?
                                -- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"

Hi! :)
	a short preamble: Gringotts is the name of the inviolable wizard
bank in Harry Potter, known in all the wizardry world for the truculent fate
that awaits all the wannabe robbers. I think it's a quite fitting name for
a program which purpose is to secure sensitive data, isn't it? :-)

	Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive
data (passwords, credit card numbers, PINs, sweethearts' addresses) in an
easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. It is inspired
by a similar program for Windows (sorry, I can't remember its name) that I
used for quite a while (when I was a windows-ist)... and it was very useful!

	For encryptions, Gringotts makes use of the MCrypt and MHash libs by
Nikos Mavroyanopoulos, two really powerful and easy to use C libraries;
moreover, it uses GTK+ 2 for the interface. Actually, it was born as a
programming exercise for these libraries, but the program itself is quite
cute and useful all the same... in my humble opinion!

	Being Free Sofware, you're *encouraged* to take the code and do just
whatever you want with it... as long as you retain the original copyright
note, of course. Every contribution is more than welcome! Now it's time to
read INSTALL, or if you want to step into the project, TODO and FILE_FORMAT.
Please, do!

	Have a nice day, and thank you very much,
		Mano :)

This software is (c) 2002, Germano Rizzo <mano@pluto.linux.it>

The name Gringotts and the verses about it are (c) 1997, Joanne Rawlings 

MCrypt is (c) 1998,1999 Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <nmav@hellug.gr>
MHash is (c) 2001 Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <nmav@hellug.gr>
