This file lists the authors for Tor, a free software project to provide anonymity on the Internet. For more information about Tor, see https://www.torproject.org/. If you got this file as a part of a larger bundle, there are probably other authors that you should be aware of. Main authors: ------------- Roger Dingledine <arma@freehaven.net> overhauled all of the code, did a bunch of new design work, etc. Nick Mathewson <nickm@freehaven.net> wrote lots of stuff too, in particular the router and descriptor parsing, and the crypto and tls wrappers. Matej Pfajfar <badbytes@freehaven.net> wrote the first version of the code (called OR) in 2001-2002. Contributors: ------------- John Bashinski <jbash@velvet.com> contributed the initial rpm spec file. Christian Grothoff <grothoff@cs.purdue.edu> contributed better daemonizing behavior. Steven Hazel <sah@thalassocracy.org> made 'make install' do the right thing. Jason Holt <jason@lunkwill.org> contributed patches to the instructions and the man page. Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> maintains everything that's debian-specific, and has written other useful features. Aaron Turner <aturner@netscreen.com> contributed the first version of the tor.sh initscripts shell script.