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8) <h2>Tor: People</h2>
9) <hr />
10) 

11) <p>The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based out of the United
12) States.  The official address of the organization is:<br>
13) <blockquote>
14) The Tor Project<br>
15) 122 Scott Circle<br>
16) Dedham, MA  02026 USA<br>
17) </blockquote>

18) 

19) <p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.</p>
20) 
21) <h3>Core Tor people:</h3>
22) 
23) <dl>
24) <dt>Roger Dingledine (Tor project leader; director)</dt><dd>Original author of Tor,
25) now plays pretty much all the roles in order to keep everything on
26) track.</dd>
27) <dt>Nick Mathewson (Chief architect; director)</dt><dd>One of the three original
28) designers of Tor; does a lot of the ongoing design work.  One of
29) the two main developers, along with Roger.</dd>
30) <dt>Shava Nerad (Development Director)</dt><dd>Works on grants and fundraising, PR
31) and community relations.</dd>
32) <dt>Andrew Lewman (director)</dt><dd>Manages the package building for Windows, OS X,
33) Red Hat, and SuSE. Also provides common sense on topics like how to run
34) a non-profit and generally helps keep everything moving forward.</dd>
35) <dt>Matt Edman (<a href="http://vidalia-project.net">Vidalia</a>
36) project leader)</dt><dd>Developer for Vidalia, a cross-platform Tor GUI
37) included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>
38) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher)</dt><dd>Researcher at the University of Cambridge,
39)  currently funded by the Tor project, working on improving the security, 
40) performance and usability of Tor.</dd>
41) <dt>Peter Palfrader (Volunteer)</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory
42) authorities, runs the wiki, and generally helps out a lot.</dd>
43) <dt>Mike Perry (Volunteer)</dt><dd>Working on TorFlow, a Tor controller to build paths through
44) the Tor network and measure various properties and behaviors.</dd>
45) <dt>Paul Syverson</dt><dd>Inventor of Onion Routing, original designer of Tor along
46) with Roger and Nick, project leader for original design, development,
47) and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research and design.</dd>
48) </dl>
49) 
50) <h3>The Tor Project Board of Directors:</h3>
51) 
52) <dl>
53) <dt>Ian Goldberg (director)</dt><dd>Has provided cryptographic proofs of security
54) for Tor's authentication protocol.</dd>
55) <dt>Rebecca McKinnon (director)</dt><dd>Co-Founder of <a
56) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org">Global Voices Online</a></dd>
57) <dt>Wendy Seltzer (director)</dt><dd>Lawyer, cyberlaw professor, and founder of
58) <a href="http://chillingeffects.org">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>
59) <dt>Fred von Lohmann (director)</dt><dd>Fred is a Senior Intellectual Property
60) Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). His complete bio
61) can be found at the <a
62) href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
63) Staff Site</a>.</dd>
64) <dt>Along with Roger, Nick, and Andrew listed above as directors.</dt>
65) </dl>
66) 
67) <h3>Our Google Summer of Coders:</h3>
68) 
69) <dl>
70) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Working on a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by Roger.</dd>
71) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Working on making Tor servers stable on Windows; mentored
72) by Nick.</dd>
73) <dt>Karsten Loesing</dt><dd> Working on distributing and securing the publishing and
74) fetching of hidden service descriptors; mentored by Roger.</dd>
75) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Working on building tools to measure various properties
76) of the Tor network; mentored by Mike Perry.</dd>
77) </dl>
78) 
79) <h3>Core translators:</h3>
80) 
81) <dl>
82) <dt>Jens Kubieziel</dt><dd>German.</dd>
83) <dt>Jan Reister</dt><dd>Italian.</dd>
84) <dt>Bogdan Pozdrawiam</dt><dd>Polish.</dd>
85) <dt>ygrek</dt><dd>Russian.</dd>
86) <dt>Pei Hanru</dt><dd>Simplified Chinese.</dd>
87) <dt>fredzupy</dt><dd>French.</dd>
88) <dt>Jan Woning</dt><dd>Dutch.</dd>
89) </dl>
90) 
91) <h3>Other volunteers:</h3>
92) 
93) <dl>
94) <dt>Kevin Bankston</dt><dd>EFF lawyer who helped write the <a
95) href="https://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en">Tor Legal FAQ</a> and
96) tirelessly answers the phone when somebody in the world has a legal
97) question about Tor.</dd>
98) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Runs one of the directory authorities, used to run the
99) Blossom project which uses Tor as its overlay network, and maintains
100) the exit.py Tor server list.</dd>
101) <dt>Fabian Keil</dt><dd>One of the core Privoxy developers, and also a Tor fan. He's
102) the reason Tor and Privoxy still work well together.</dd>
103) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
104) <dt>Robert Hogan</dt><dd>Project leader for the TorK Tor controller, also
105) works on a liveCD that includes Tor and related programs.</dd>
106) <dt>Julius Mittenzwei</dt><dd>A lawyer with the CCC in Germany. Coordinates the
107) German Tor community with respect to legal questions and concerns.</dd>
108) <dt>Lasse Øverlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks, defenses, and
109) resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>
110) <dt>Martin Peck and Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developers for JanusVM, a VMWare-based
111) transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>
112) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of TorButton.</dd>
113) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum</dt><dd> Runs the TorDNSEL site.</dd>
114) <dt>Tup (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from
115) us!)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for making Tor more transparent to
116) use. Also maintains the TorDNSEL code.</dd>
117) <dt>Ethan Zuckerman</dt><dd>A blogger who has written some great tutorials for how,
118) when, and whether to use Tor.</dd>
119) <dt>All our server operators, people who write research papers about Tor, people
120) who teach others about Tor, etc.</dt>
121) </dl>
122) 
123) <h3>Past thanks to:</h3>
124) 
125) <dl>
126) <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>
127) <dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Oringal author and provider of the torstatus script formerly run
128) on nighteffect.</dd>
129) <dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>
130) <dt>Matej Pfajfar</dt><dd>Author of the original onion routing code that Tor is
131) based on, so we didn't have to start from scratch.</dd>
132) </dl>

133) 

134) <p>Tor was designed by Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson of Free
135) Haven and <a href="http://www.syverson.org/">Paul Syverson</a> of the
136) <a href="http://www.nrl.navy.mil/">Naval Research Laboratory</a>, based
137) on the original <a href="http://www.onion-router.net/">onion routing</a>
138) idea developed at NRL.</p>

139) 

140) <p>Please don't contact us individually about Tor topics &mdash; if
141) you have a problem or question, please look through the <a href="<page
142) contact>">contact page</a> for appropriate addresses.</p>
143)