This file lists the authors for Tor, a free software project to provide anonymity on the Internet. For more information about Tor, see http://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 overhauled all of the code, did a bunch of new design work, etc. Nick Mathewson wrote lots of stuff too, in particular the router and descriptor parsing, and the crypto and tls wrappers. Matej Pfajfar wrote the first version of the code (called OR) in 2001-2002. Contributors: ------------- John Bashinski contributed the initial rpm spec file. Christian Grothoff contributed better daemonizing behavior. Steven Hazel made 'make install' do the right thing. Jason Holt contributed patches to the instructions and the man page. Peter Palfrader maintains everything that's debian-specific, and has written other useful features. Aaron Turner contributed the first version of the tor.sh initscripts shell script.