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Update readme to include additional project information and clarify lack of support for rekeying unencrypted databases

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Encryption is provided by the OpenSSL crypto library.
SQLite Cipher was developed by Stephen Lombardo at Zetetic LLC.
sjlombardo at zetetic.net
http://zetetic.net
SQLite Cipher was initially developed by Stephen Lombardo at Zetetic LLC (sjlombardo@zetetic.net) to provide
the encrypted database layer for Strip, an iPhone data vault and password manager ( http://www.zetetic.net/products/strip ).
The official SQLCipher software site can be found at http://www.zetetic.net/software/sqlcipher
Issues or support questions on using SQLCipher should be entered into the GitHub Issue tracker:
http://github.com/sjlombardo/sqlcipher/issues
Please DO NOT post issues, support questions, or other problems to blog posts about SQLCipher as we do not monitor them frequently.
If you are using SQLCipher in your own software please let us know at support@zetetic.net!
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[Encrypting a standard database]
To encrypt a standard (non-enrypted) database file, use the rekey methods described above, but
don't provide an initial key..
Encrypting a standard, plaintext SQLite database is not supported at this time. We are currently
working on a resolution to the problem. In the mean time it is easiest to start out with an
encrypted database if possible. Alternately it should be possible to open a standard database,
ATTACH an encrypted DB, and then copy your tables and data between the two.
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