OpenFWTK design principles and compatibility API are based
on Trusted Information Systems Firewall Toolkit and contributed
software. The TIS fwtk was written by Marcus J. Ranum and
Frederick Avolio. Due to licensing issues OpenFWTK shares
little code with TIS fwtk, limiting its presense to small
parts that were put to public domain, but the overall
architecture and configuration format of TIS fwtk have
big influence on this software.

Most of the development was sponsored by Eltex T.C., 
(later, ADVA Research Center), as core components of the 
toolkit were used in their commercial firewall appliance
(Gadget, later ADVAGuard) and relicensed to OpenFWTK Development
Group under BSD-like terms.

Authors and contributors, in no particular order, by module
(see also AUTHOR section in man pages)

Core team:
ArkanoiD (Alex Smirnoff)
Alexey Kravchuk
Alex Ott
Oleg Sapon

API:
Marcus J Ranum
Guido van Rossum
Eberhard Mattes
Antual Avdioukhine
Darren Reed
David Lang
Matthew Green

Authenticaion agent:
Julianne Frances Haugh
Juha Virtanen
University of California, Berkeley and its contributors

Authentication server:
Angelos D. Keromytis
Neil M. Haller
Philip R. Karn
John S. Walden
Scott Chasin
Vladimir Ivanov
e_costin@yahoo.com

cmd-gw:
Eberhard Mattes

cvs-gw:
Alexander Kosheverov
Adam Jendrosek
Antuan Avdioukhine

ftp-gw:
Matthew Kirkwood

hqdaemon:
Alexander Snarskii

ident-spoofer:
Antuan Avdioukhine

lp-gw:
Eberhard Mattes

nntp-gw:
Eberhard Mattes
Giles Heron

pam-authsrv:
Mark D. Roth (University of Illinois Board of Trustees)

plug-gw:
David Lang

pop3-gw:
Desti (admin@optbank.ru)

smtp-gw:
Obtuse Systems Corportation 
(See CREDITS inside smtp-gw directory for details.)
Julian Assange, proff@suburbia.net
matt@uts.edu.au
Bill Warner, lww@ictech.com
Andre Albsmeier, Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de
Brett Hawn, blh@draconia.com
Marcus Schwartz, marcus@schwartz.org
Eduardo Egues <eddie@mail.infocom.etecsa.cu>
Pedro Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR>
Spamford Wallace <wallace@cyberpromo.com>
Andreas Borchert <borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
Andrew Foster <adf@fl.net.au> 
Matthew Tolle <matt@primenet.com>
Terry Echiverri (terry@nol.net)
Pauline van Winsen <Pauline.van.Winsen@uniq.com.au>
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Henning P. Schmiedehausen <hps@tanstaafl.de>
Peter Marelas <maral@phase-one.com.au>
Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
Mark Seiden  <mis@seiden.com>
Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
Henning P. Schmiedehausen <hps@tanstaafl.de>

squid-gw:
Eberhard Mattes

ssmtp:
Christoph Lameter
Hugo Haas

ssl-gw:
Jean-Cristophe Touvet

reports:
Fred Avolio
Marcus J Ranum
Craig Rowland
Richard Bullington
Jay Vassos-Libove
Mike Williams

Please email arkenoi@gmail.com if you contributed to the
project and your name is missing in the list.


