Yenta documentation
This tree holds Yenta's documentation -- if you want Yenta itself, start
here
Note that some of this documentation is of use only to Yenta developers, while other parts
are conceivably of use to all of Yenta's users. This tree is minimally-populated as of
this release, but is expected to grow over time.
In general, this tree reflects only the current release of Yenta, and not past
releases. If it becomes important to freeze the documentation for some release(s) while
later releases happen, this page will be appropriately updated to point at the historical
information.
What's here
The vast majority of Yenta's user documentation ships with the Yenta application itself.
This tree therefore holds only those files that are used rarely enough that they are not
worth shipping in every single binary, or which are expected to change extremely rarely
(e.g., not with every release), or which are of use primarily to developers who are
working on Yenta and wish to understand its source code.
This tree is not yet fully populated! More items will appear soon.
- Yenta's quick pitch. A slightly different version of
these files are part of Yenta itself and are shipped in the binary; these exist so
they can be pointed to by other web pages to encourage people to download and run
the binary in the first place.
- Yenta's license and copyright terms. This also
appears, in slightly-modified form, in the COPYING file at toplevel in the source
tree, and in help-license.html, as served by the application itself.
- Some notes on Yenta's security. These document
some aspects of how Yenta's security works. You should also read the
papers.
- GNU regexp documentation. This explains regular
expression syntax, for users writing message filters which look at attestations.
[Unfortunately, it does not (yet) document exactly which compilation switches
we used in the source, hence exactly which sets of options are turned on or off in
Yenta's regexps. We should do this someday.]
Lenny Foner
Last modified: Sat Mar 20 16:54:28 EST 1999