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+# Roughenough
+**Roughenough** is a **WORK IN PROGRESS** Rust implementation of the [Roughtime](https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime) 
+secure time synchronization protocol.
+
+## About the Roughtime Protocol
+[Roughtime](https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime) is a protocol that aims to achieve rough 
+time synchronisation in a secure way that doesn't depend on any particular time server, and in such
+a way that, if a time server does misbehave, clients end up with cryptographic proof of it. It was 
+created by Adam Langley and Robert Obryk.
+
+## Links
+* [Roughenough Github repo](https://github.com/int08h/roughenough)
+* [Roughtime project](https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime)
+* My blog posts [describing Roughtime features](https://int08h.com/post/to-catch-a-lying-timeserver/) and 
+  exploring the [details of Roughtime messages](https://int08h.com/post/roughtime-message-anatomy/).
+
+## Building
+
+Use `cargo` to compile:
+
+```bash
+$ cargo run
+```
+
+## Implementation Status
+
+Work-in-progress.
+
+* Protocol - incomplete
+* Server - not started
+  
+## Contributors
+* Stuart Stock, original author and current maintainer (stuart {at} int08h.com)
+
+## Copyright and License
+Roughenough is copyright (c) 2017 int08h LLC. All rights reserved. 
+
+int08h LLC licenses Roughenough (the "Software") to you under the Apache License, version 2.0 
+(the "License"); you may not use this Software except in compliance with the License. You may obtain 
+a copy of the License from the [LICENSE](../master/LICENSE) file included with the Software or at:
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License 
+is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 
+implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under 
+the License.