mcrypt and libmcrypt was originaly created by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <nmav@hellug.gr>, although many people contributed by sending bug reports, patches, and comments. - Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx> - Steve Underwood <steveu@infowebtelecom.com> - Igor Schein <igor@txc.com> - Alexander Demenshin <aldem@techie.com> - Koblinger Egmont <egmont@fazekas.hu> - Larry Snyder <larrys@lexis-nexis.com> - Robin Humble <rjh@pixel.maths.monash.edu.au> - Janusz A. Urbanowicz <alex@bofh.net.pl> - Dan Stromberg <strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu> - R Sriram <rsriram@krdl.org.sg> - Robert Hanzlik <robi@junyks.cz> - Lars Nordentoft <lntech@post9.tele.dk> - Don Sutherland <dss@yadda.net> - Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez@linuxcare.com> - Jerome Bertorelle <jerome.bertorelle@noos.fr> - Andrew Libby <alibby@commnav.com> - Jonathan Woolmington <jwool@ind.tansu.com.au> - Sami Farin <sfarin@ratol.fi> - Barton C Massey <bart@cs.pdx.edu> - Derick Rethans <d.rethans@jdimedia.nl> - Phillip Oleson <poleson@verio.net> - Bernard Guillot <bguillot@incoretech.com> - Stefan Hetzl <shetzl@teleweb.at> - Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com> - Germano Rizzo <mano@pluto.linux.it> - Ilia A. <ilia@prohost.org> - [and several others] The Designers of the algorithms: - DES: IBM & NSA - Lucifer (the algorithm that DES is based on): Roy Adler, Don Coppersmith, Horst Feistel, Edna Grossman, Alan Konheim, Carl Meyer, Bill Notz, Lynn Smith, Walt Tuchman and Bryant Tuckerman - CAST-128/CAST-256: Carlisle Adams - xTEA: David Wheeler & Roger M. Needham - 3-WAY: Joan Daemen - Blowfish: Bruce Schneier - Twofish: Bruce Schneier, Doug Whiting, John Kelsey, Chris Hall, David Wagner - GOST: A.Zabotin, G.P. Glazkov, and V.B. Isaeva - SAFER: J.L. Massey - RC2/RC4: Ron Rivest - LOKI97: Lawrie Brown, Josef Pieprzyk
