The principal author and maintainer of mcrypt is

  Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <nmav@hellug.gr>


Copyright holders in the mcrypt program are:

- Timo Schulz <ts@winpt.org>
  Own all of the OpenPGP related code (rfc2440.c)

- Julianne Frances Haugh, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
  Own the included getpass() functions (getpass.c)

- Stefan Hetzl <shetzl@teleweb.at>
  Owns the improved version of popen() used (popen.c)

- Free Software Foundation
  Owns the unix crypt code (ufc_crypt.c)