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<h2>Tor: People</h2>
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<p>The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based out of the United
States.  The official address of the organization is:<br>
<blockquote>
The Tor Project<br>
122 Scott Circle<br>
Dedham, MA  02026 USA<br>
</blockquote>

<p>The organization consists of many volunteers and a few employees.</p>

<h3>Core Tor people:</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Roger Dingledine (Tor project leader; director)</dt><dd>Original author of Tor,
now plays pretty much all the roles in order to keep everything on
track.</dd>
<dt>Nick Mathewson (Chief architect; director)</dt><dd>One of the three original
designers of Tor; does a lot of the ongoing design work.  One of
the two main developers, along with Roger.</dd>
<dt>Shava Nerad (Development Director)</dt><dd>Works on grants and fundraising, PR
and community relations.</dd>
<dt>Andrew Lewman (director)</dt><dd>Manages the package building for Windows, OS X,
Red Hat, and SuSE. Also provides common sense on topics like how to run
a non-profit and generally helps keep everything moving forward.</dd>
<dt>Matt Edman (<a href="http://vidalia-project.net">Vidalia</a>
project leader)</dt><dd>Developer for Vidalia, a cross-platform Tor GUI
included in the Windows and OS X bundles.</dd>
<dt>Steven Murdoch (Researcher)</dt><dd>Researcher at the University of Cambridge,
 currently funded by the Tor project, working on improving the security, 
performance and usability of Tor.</dd>
<dt>Peter Palfrader (Volunteer)</dt><dd>Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory
authorities, runs the wiki, and generally helps out a lot.</dd>
<dt>Mike Perry (Volunteer)</dt><dd>Working on TorFlow, a Tor controller to build paths through
the Tor network and measure various properties and behaviors.</dd>
<dt>Paul Syverson</dt><dd>Inventor of Onion Routing, original designer of Tor along
with Roger and Nick, project leader for original design, development,
and deployment of Tor. Currently helps out with research and design.</dd>
</dl>

<h3>The Tor Project Board of Directors:</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Ian Goldberg (director)</dt><dd>Has provided cryptographic proofs of security
for Tor's authentication protocol.</dd>
<dt>Rebecca McKinnon (director)</dt><dd>Co-Founder of <a
href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org">Global Voices Online</a></dd>
<dt>Wendy Seltzer (director)</dt><dd>Lawyer, cyberlaw professor, and founder of
<a href="http://chillingeffects.org">ChillingEffects.org</a>.</dd>
<dt>Fred von Lohmann (director)</dt><dd>Fred is a Senior Intellectual Property
Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). His complete bio
can be found at the <a
href="http://www.eff.org/about/staff/?f=fred_von_lohmann.html">EFF
Staff Site</a>.</dd>
<dt>Along with Roger, Nick, and Andrew listed above as directors.</dt>
</dl>

<h3>Our Google Summer of Coders:</h3>

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

<h3>Core translators:</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Jens Kubieziel</dt><dd>German.</dd>
<dt>Jan Reister</dt><dd>Italian.</dd>
<dt>Bogdan Pozdrawiam</dt><dd>Polish.</dd>
<dt>ygrek</dt><dd>Russian.</dd>
<dt>Pei Hanru</dt><dd>Simplified Chinese.</dd>
<dt>fredzupy</dt><dd>French.</dd>
<dt>Jan Woning</dt><dd>Dutch.</dd>
</dl>

<h3>Other volunteers:</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Kevin Bankston</dt><dd>EFF lawyer who helped write the <a
href="https://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en">Tor Legal FAQ</a> and
tirelessly answers the phone when somebody in the world has a legal
question about Tor.</dd>
<dt>Geoff Goodell</dt><dd>Runs one of the directory authorities, used to run the
Blossom project which uses Tor as its overlay network, and maintains
the exit.py Tor server list.</dd>
<dt>Fabian Keil</dt><dd>One of the core Privoxy developers, and also a Tor fan. He's
the reason Tor and Privoxy still work well together.</dd>
<dt>Justin Hipple</dt><dd>The other developer for Vidalia.</dd>
<dt>Robert Hogan</dt><dd>Project leader for the TorK Tor controller, also
works on a liveCD that includes Tor and related programs.</dd>
<dt>Julius Mittenzwei</dt><dd>A lawyer with the CCC in Germany. Coordinates the
German Tor community with respect to legal questions and concerns.</dd>
<dt>Lasse Øverlier</dt><dd>Writes research papers on Tor: attacks, defenses, and
resource management, especially for hidden services.</dd>
<dt>Martin Peck and Kyle Williams</dt><dd>Developers for JanusVM, a VMWare-based
transparent Tor proxy that makes Tor easier to set up and use.</dd>
<dt>Scott Squires</dt><dd>The original developer of TorButton.</dd>
<dt>Jacob Appelbaum</dt><dd> Runs the TorDNSEL site.</dd>
<dt>Tup (a pseudonym -- he's managed to stay anonymous even from
us!)</dt><dd>Periodically adds new features for making Tor more transparent to
use. Also maintains the TorDNSEL code.</dd>
<dt>Ethan Zuckerman</dt><dd>A blogger who has written some great tutorials for how,
when, and whether to use Tor.</dd>
<dt>All our server operators, people who write research papers about Tor, people
who teach others about Tor, etc.</dt>
</dl>

<h3>Past thanks to:</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Ren Bucholz</dt><dd>Our fine logo and images.</dd>
<dt>Joe Kowalski</dt><dd>Oringal author and provider of the torstatus script formerly run
on nighteffect.</dd>
<dt>Adam Langley</dt><dd>Our fine eventdns code.</dd>
<dt>Matej Pfajfar</dt><dd>Author of the original onion routing code that Tor is
based on, so we didn't have to start from scratch.</dd>
</dl>

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

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

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