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+Describes how to create a simple Rust application using Sequoia.
+
+# Build dependencies
+
+First of all, you need Rust, and a few libraries that we depend upon.
+On Debian-like systems, the required packages can be installed using
+the following command.  As of this writing, this works fine on Debian
+10 (Buster).  You can use Debian 9 (Stretch), but you need to pull
+`rustc`, `cargo`, and `nettle-dev` from testing.
+
+```text
+# apt install git rustc cargo clang make pkg-config nettle-dev libssl-dev capnproto libsqlite3-dev
+```
+
+# Creating a new project
+
+If are starting from scratch, you need to create a new crate:
+
+```text
+$ cargo new --bin example
+     Created binary (application) `example` project
+$ cd example
+```
+
+Now add Sequoia to the `[dependencies]` section in `Cargo.toml`:
+
+```toml
+sequoia-openpgp = "0.2"
+```
+
+If you want to use the bleeding edge, you can instead refer to the
+version in git:
+
+```toml
+sequoia-openpgp = { git = "https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia.git" }
+```
+
+To build and run your application, do:
+
+```sh
+$ cargo run
+```
+
+On the first run, cargo will download and build Sequoia and all
+dependencies.  When finished, nothing really happens because we have
+not populated `main` yet.  Let's do that!  Open `src/main.rs` with
+your favorite editor, and enter:
+
+```
+#[macro_use] // For armored!
+extern crate sequoia_openpgp as openpgp;
+use std::io;
+
+fn main() {
+    let mut reader = armored!(
+        "-----BEGIN PGP ARMORED FILE-----
+
+         SGVsbG8gd29ybGQhCg==
+         =XLsG
+         -----END PGP ARMORED FILE-----"
+    );
+
+    io::copy(&mut reader, &mut io::stdout()).unwrap();
+}
+```
+
+Running the application now prints a friendly message to stdout.
+
+A word on the `armored` macro.  We will use this macro in this guide
+to inline OpenPGP data into the source code.  Sequoia includes filters
+for ASCII armored data.  You can use these filters to read armored
+data from any `Read`er, or write armored data to any `Write`r.  The
+`armored` macro does the same for string literals.  In order to use
+this macro, you need to use `#[macro_use]` when importing the
+`openpgp` crate.
+
+# Building the Sequoia tool
+
+Sequoia includes a simple frontend `sq` that can be used to experiment
+with Sequoia and OpenPGP.  The documentation for this tool is
+[here](../../sq/index.html).  It is also an example of
+how to use various aspects of Sequoia.  Clone Sequoia and build the
+tool:
+
+```sh
+$ git clone https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia.git
+...
+$ cd sequoia
+$ cargo build -p sequoia-tool
+...
+$ target/debug/sq
+sq 0.1.0
+Sequoia is an implementation of OpenPGP.  This is a command-line frontend.
+...
+```