                    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:
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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:
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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.

