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One of the things that is very delightful about writing open-
source software is the incredible amount of help people have been
offering me with MaraDNS. Numerous people have provided
invaluable assistance with filing bug reports, making usability
suggesations, providing patches and reports with respect to
running MaraDNS on other operating systems, and otherwise making
MaraDNS a superior program.

Here is a partial list of people who have provided assistance:

Franky Van Liedekerke has provided much invaluable assistance. As
just one example, he provided invaluable assistance in getting
MaraDNS to compile on Solaris. In addition, he has provided much
valuable SQA help.

Thomas Seyrat has provided French translations of the MaraDNS
documentation.

Christian Kurz, who has provided invaluable bug reports,
especially when I had to re-implement the core hashing algorithm.

Remmy, who is providing both the web space and a mailing list for
maradns.org.

Phil Homewood, who provided invaluable assistance with finding
and fixing bugs in the authoritative portion of the MaraDNS
server. He helped me plug memory leaks, find uninitialized
variables being used, and found a number of bugs I was unable to
find.

Albert Prats kindly provided Spanish translations for various
text files.

Shin Zukeran provided a patch to recursive.c which properly makes
a normal null-terminated string from a js_string object, to send
as an argument to open() so we can get the rijndael key for the
PRNG.

D Richard Felker III has provided invaluable bug reports. By
looking at his bug reports, I have been able to hunt down and fix
many problems that the recursive nameserver had, in addition to
at least one problem with the authoritative nameserver.

Ole Tange has also given me many valuable MaraDNS bug reports.

Florin Iucha provided a tip in the FAQ for how to compile MaraDNS
on OpenBSD.

Roy Arends (one of the BIND developers, as it turns out) found a
serious security problem with MaraDNS, where MaraDNS would answer
answers, and pointed it out to me.

Code used as the basis for the psudo-random-number generator was
written by Vincent Rijmen, Antoon Bosselaers, and Paulo Barreto.
I appreciate these programmers making the code public domain,
which is the only license under which I can add code to MaraDNS
under.

I also appreciate the work of Dr. Brian Gladman and Fritz
Schneider, who have both written independent implementations of
AES from which I obtained test vectors. With the help of their
hard work, I was able to discover a subtle security problem that
previous releases of MaraDNS had.
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