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7)     <a href="<page index>">Home &raquo; </a>

8)     <a href="<page about/overview>">About &raquo; </a>

9)     <a href="<page about/contributors>">Past Contributors</a>
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12)   	<h1>Past Contributors</h1>

13) <dl>

14) <dt>Sherief Alaa, Support</dt>
15) <dd>Arabic translator, worked on videos and documentation and helped
16) respond to users who contacted the support desk.</dd>

17) <dt>Alexandre Allaire, Developer</dt>
18) <dd>Helped develop and package Flash Proxy.</dd>

19) <dt>Carolyn Anhalt</dt><dd>Coordinated translations and translators for
20) all of tor's content; website, products, and materials.</dd>

21) <dt>Thomas S. Benjamin</dt>
22) <dd>Anonymous communications and bridge distribution
23) researcher. His other work can be found on his <a
24) href="http://cryptocracy.net/">personal website</a>.</dd>

25) <dt>Domenik Bork</dt><dd> Worked on

26) Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia as
27) part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

28) <dt>Benedikt Boss</dt><dd>Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code on <a
29) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/topf/trunk/README">TOPF</a>,
30) a fuzzer for Tor; mentored by Roger.</dd>

31) <dt>Caspar Bowden, Director (1961 - 2015)</dt>
32) <dd>Caspar was an advocate for Tor in Europe and a specialist in data
33) protection policy, EU and US surveillance law, PET research, identity
34) management, and information ethics and philosophy. He was formerly the
35) chief privacy advisor at Microsoft. He believed that people in every
36) country deserved the right to privacy irrespective of national
37) borders. He predicted US mass surveillance programs such as PRISM
38) and was vindicated after the Snowden revelations. We miss him
39) deeply.</dd>

40) <dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>
41) <dt>Fallon Chen</dt><dd> Worked on
42) Improving Tor Path Selection (<a
43) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>)
44) and <a

45) href="<specblob>proposals/151-path-selection-improvements.txt">proposal

46) 151</a> as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
47) <dt>Bram Cohen</dt><dd>Helped design our congestion control mechanisms,
48) in Tor's early days.</dd>
49) <dt>Pat Double</dt><dd>Creator of the Incognito LiveCD.</dd>

50) <dt>Christopher Davis, Libevent hacker</dt>
51) <dd>Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 on porting
52) Polipo to Windows.  He currently helps with the libevent
53) bufferevent code.</dd>

54) <dt>Matt Edman</dt>

55) <dd>Original developer for Vidalia,

56) a cross-platform Tor Graphical User Interface included in the bundles.</dd>

57) <dt>Melissa Gilroy, CFO and Internal Audit</dt>
58) <dd>Melissa was formerly in charge of Tor's finances, audit compliance, and
59) keeping Tor's financial operations moving along.</dd>

60) <dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Started the <a
61) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom project</a>
62) which uses Tor as its overlay network; also helped motivate Tor's control
63) interface to be as flexible as it is.</dd>
64) <dt>Aleksei Gorny</dt><dd> Working on
65) Tor exit scanner improvements (<a
66) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/torflow/branches/gsoc2008/">svn</a>), originally started as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>
67) <dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>

68) <dt>Robert Hogan</dt>
69) <dd>Developer for the <a
70) href="http://tork.sf.net/">TorK</a> Tor controller, a <a
71) href="http://code.google.com/p/torora/">privacy-oriented
72) Arora fork</a>, the <a
73) href="http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/">torsocks
74) scripts</a>, and other useful peripheral tools.</dd>

75) <dt>Christian King</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of Code
76) on making Tor relays stable on
77) Windows, by developing a <a
78) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/libevent-urz/trunk/README">buffer
79) implementation for libevent</a>; mentored by Nick.</dd>
80) <dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Original author and provider of the torstatus
81) script formerly run on nighteffect.</dd>
82) <dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>
83) <dt>Rebecca MacKinnon</dt><dd>Former Director of Tor.  Co-Founder of <a
84) href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">Global Voices Online</a>.</dd>

85) <dt>Andrew Lewman, Former Executive Director</dt>
86) <dd>Managed the business operations of The Tor Project, Inc. Played
87) roles of finance, advocacy, project management, strategy, press, law
88) enforcement liaison, and domestic violence advocacy.</dd>
89) <dt>Kelley Misata</dt>
90) <dd>Kelley formerly handled press, coordinated Tor talks and outreach,
91) helped with trainings, helped with annual reports, and generally worked
92) on community-facing activities.</dd>

93) <dt>Chris Palmer</dt><dd>Our liaison and tech guy with EFF while EFF
94) was funding us. Also helped advocate and write end-user docs.</dd>

95) <dt>Martin Peck</dt><dd>Worked on a VM-based transparent
96) proxying approach for Tor clients on Windows.</dd>

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

99) <dt>Robert Ransom</dt><dd>Found and fixed a bunch of Tor bugs, mostly in
100) Tor's hidden service code, and added several security and usability
101) features to Tor and Tor Browser Bundle.</dd>

102) <dt>Johannes Renner</dt><dd> Worked during the 2007 Google Summer of
103) Code on modifying <a
104) href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torflow/trunk/README">TorFlow</a>
105) to measure various properties of the Tor network; mentored by Mike
106) Perry.</dd>

107) <dt>Runa A. Sandvik, Advocate</dt>
108) <dd>Maintained the Tor Translation Portal and the translations for
109) projects such as Vidalia, Torbutton and the website.</dd>

110) <dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of <a

111) href="<page docs/torbutton/index>">Torbutton</a>.</dd>

112) <dt>tup (a pseudonym)</dt><dd>Added new features for
113) making Tor easier to use as a <a
114) href="<wiki>TransparentProxy">transparent
115) proxy</a>. Also wrote the <a
116) href="http://p56soo2ibjkx23xo.onion/">TorDNSEL code</a>.</dd>

117) <dt>Tomás Touceda, Vidalia Developer</dt>
118) <dd>Worked on maintenance and new development for Vidalia.</dd>

119) <dt>Stephen Tyree</dt><dd> Worked during Google Summer of Code 2009 to

120) develop a plugin API for Vidalia

121) and create a plugin to allow HerdictWeb integration, a project aiming
122) at identifying website inaccessibility using user submissions.</dd>
123) <dt>Camilo Viecco</dt><dd> Worked on

124) Providing Blossom functionality to Vidalia as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

125) <dt>Fred von Lohmann</dt><dd>Fred served on our Board of Directors

126) from 2006 through 2009.</dd>

127) <dt>Shondoit Walker, Build Developer</dt>
128) <dd>Worked on streamlining and bulletproofing the Tor Browser
129) Bundle build process, especially on Windows.</dd>

130) <dt>Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developer for JanusVM, a VMWare-based
131) transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>

132) <dt>Christian Wilms</dt><dd> Worked on
133) Performance Enhancing Measures for Tor Hidden Services (<a
134) href="https://svn.torproject.org/cgi-bin/viewvs.cgi/tor/branches/hidserv-perf/">svn</a>) as part of Google Summer of Code 2008.</dd>

135) <dt>Jillian C. York</dt><dd><a href="http://jilliancyork.com/">Jillian C. York</a> is a writer, blogger, and activist.</dd>

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