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XCept provides a decoder for the CEPT protocol as it is in use for
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example by the Btx service of the Deutsche Telekom. In particular,
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electronic banking and other commercial services are being handled
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this way. The CEPT protocol itself is supposed to be a European Telco
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protocol, though I don't know whether any other Telco is actually
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using it.
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The program consists of two parts, ceptd acting as a server on the
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host with the modem to use, and xcept as the client which interacts
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with the user, using an X11 frontend if desired. Xcept also provides
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basic scripting facilities.
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The package has been developed by Arno Augustin and Frank Hoering at
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the University of Nuernberg-Erlangen, Germany. XCept version 2 has
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been the last version distributed under a BSD-style copyright; the
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package went commercial in later versions. The authors no longer
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distribute or support version 2.
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2003-01-20 14:10:00 -05:00
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Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>
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