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8) <h2>Tor: People</h2>
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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

25) author of Tor, now plays pretty much all the roles in order to keep
26) everything on track.</dd>

27) <dt>Matt Edman</dt><dd>Developer for <a
28) href="http://vidalia-project.net/">Vidalia</a>, a cross-platform Tor GUI
29) included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>

30) <dt>Andrew Lewman (Director)</dt><dd>Manages building packages for

31) Windows, OS X, Red Hat, and SuSE. Also provides common sense on topics
32) like how to run a non-profit and generally helps keep everything moving
33) forward.</dd>

34) <dt>Nick Mathewson (Chief architect; Director)</dt><dd>One of the
35) three original designers of Tor; does a lot of the ongoing design work.
36) One of the two main developers, along with Roger.</dd>

37) <dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher)</dt><dd>Researcher at the University

38) of Cambridge, currently funded by The Tor Project to improve
39) the security, performance, and usability of Tor.</dd>

40) <dt>Shava Nerad (Development director)</dt><dd>Works on grants and
41) fundraising, PR, and community relations.</dd>

42) <dt>Peter Palfrader</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages,

43) runs one of the directory authorities, runs the wiki, and generally
44) helps out a lot.</dd>

45) <dt>Mike Perry</dt><dd>Author of <a
46) href="http://tor.eff.org/svn/torflow/">TorFlow</a>, a Tor
47) controller that builds paths through the Tor network and
48) measures various properties and behaviors. Working now on a <a
49) href="http://torbutton.torproject.org/dev/">much more comprehensive
50) version of Torbutton</a>.</dd>
51) <dt>Paul Syverson</dt><dd>Inventor of <a
52) href="http://www.onion-router.net/">Onion Routing</a>, original designer
53) of Tor along with Roger and Nick, and project leader for original design,

54) development, and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research
55) and design.</dd>

56) </dl>
57) 
58) <h3>The Tor Project Board of Directors:</h3>
59) 
60) <dl>

61) <dt>Ian Goldberg (Director)</dt><dd>Has provided cryptographic proofs

62) of security for Tor's authentication protocol.</dd>

63) <dt>Rebecca McKinnon (Director)</dt><dd>Co-Founder of <a
64) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>
65) <dt>Wendy Seltzer (Director)</dt><dd>Lawyer,

66) cyberlaw professor, and founder of <a

67) href="http://chillingeffects.org/">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>
68) <dt>Fred von Lohmann (Director)</dt><dd>Fred is a Senior

69) Intellectual Property Attorney at the Electronic Frontier
70) Foundation (EFF). His complete bio can be found at the <a

71) href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
72) Staff Site</a>.</dd>

73) <dt>Along with Roger, Nick, and Andrew listed above as Directors.</dt>

74) </dl>
75) 

76) <h3>Our 2007 Google Summer of Coders:</h3>

77) 
78) <dl>

79) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Working on a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by
80) Roger.</dd>
81) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Working on making Tor servers stable on
82) Windows; mentored by Nick.</dd>
83) <dt>Karsten Loesing</dt><dd> Working on distributing and securing
84) the publishing and fetching of hidden service descriptors; mentored
85) by Roger.</dd>
86) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Working on building tools to measure various
87) properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike Perry.</dd>

88) </dl>
89) 
90) <h3>Core translators:</h3>
91) 
92) <dl>

93) <dt>fredzupy</dt><dd><a
94) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.fr">French</a>.</dd>

95) <dt>Jens Kubieziel</dt><dd><a
96) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.de">German</a>.</dd>
97) <dt>Pei Hanru</dt><dd><a
98) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.zh-cn">Simplified Chinese</a>.</dd>

99) <dt>Bogdan Pozdrawiam</dt><dd><a
100) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.pl">Polish</a>.</dd>
101) <dt>Jan Reister</dt><dd><a
102) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.it">Italian</a>.</dd>

103) <dt>Jan Woning</dt><dd><a
104) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.nl">Dutch</a>.</dd>

105) <dt>ygrek</dt><dd><a
106) href="https://tor.eff.org/index.html.ru">Russian</a>.</dd>

107) </dl>
108) 
109) <h3>Other volunteers:</h3>
110) 
111) <dl>

112) <dt>Jacob Appelbaum</dt><dd> Runs the TorDNSEL site.</dd>

113) <dt>Kevin Bankston</dt><dd>EFF lawyer who helped write the <a
114) href="https://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en">Tor Legal FAQ</a> and
115) tirelessly answers the phone when somebody in the world has a legal
116) question about Tor.</dd>

117) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Runs one of the directory authorities, used
118) to run the Blossom project which uses Tor as its overlay network, and
119) maintains the exit.py Tor server list.</dd>
120) <dt>Fabian Keil</dt><dd>One of the core Privoxy developers, and also a
121) Tor fan. He's the reason Tor and Privoxy still work well together.</dd>

122) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>

123) <dt>Robert Hogan</dt><dd>Project leader for the TorK Tor controller,
124) also works on a liveCD that includes Tor and related programs.</dd>
125) <dt>Julius Mittenzwei</dt><dd>A lawyer with the CCC in
126) Germany. Coordinates the German Tor community with respect to legal
127) questions and concerns.</dd>
128) <dt>Lasse Øverlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks,
129) defenses, and resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>
130) <dt>Martin Peck and Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developers for JanusVM,
131) a VMWare-based transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up
132) and use.</dd>

133) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of TorButton.</dd>
134) <dt>Tup (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from

135) us!)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for making Tor more
136) transparent to use. Also maintains the TorDNSEL code.</dd>
137) <dt>Ethan Zuckerman</dt><dd>A blogger who has written some great tutorials
138) for how, when, and whether to use Tor.</dd>
139) <dt>All our server operators, people who write research papers about Tor,
140) people who teach others about Tor, etc.</dt>

141) </dl>
142) 
143) <h3>Past thanks to:</h3>
144) 
145) <dl>
146) <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>

147) <dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Original author and provider of the torstatus

148) script formerly run on nighteffect.</dd>

149) <dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>

150) <dt>Matej Pfajfar</dt><dd>Author of the original onion routing code that
151) Tor is based on, so we didn't have to start from scratch.</dd>

152) </dl>

153) 

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

159) 

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