mcrypt was originaly created by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos <nmav@hellug.gr>,
although many people contributed by sending bug reports, patches, and comments.

- Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx> 
- Steve Underwood <steveu@infowebtelecom.com> 
- Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>
- Alexander Demenshin <aldem@techie.com>
- Koblinger Egmont <egmont@fazekas.hu>
- Larry Snyder <larrys@lexis-nexis.com>
- Robin Humble <rjh@pixel.maths.monash.edu.au>
- Janusz A. Urbanowicz <alex@bofh.net.pl>
- Dan Stromberg <strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu>
- R Sriram <rsriram@krdl.org.sg>
- Robert Hanzlik <robi@junyks.cz>
- Lars Nordentoft <lntech@post9.tele.dk>
- Don Sutherland <dss@yadda.net>


The Designers of the algorithms:

DES: IBM & NSA 
(IBM's Lucifer: Roy Adler, Don Coppersmith, Horst Feistel, Edna Grossman,
Alan Konheim, Carl Meyer, Bill Notz, Lynn Smith, Walt Tuchman and
Bryant Tuckerman)
CAST-128/CAST-256: Carlisle Adams
xTEA: David Wheeler & Roger M. Needham 
3-WAY: Joan Daemen
Blowfish: Bruce Schneier
Twofish: Bruce Schneier, Doug Whiting, John Kelsey, Chris Hall, David Wagner
GOST: A.Zabotin (project leader), G.P. Glazkov, and V.B. Isaeva
SAFER: J.L. Massey
RC2/RC4/RC6: Ron Rivest
LOKI97: Lawrie Brown, Josef Pieprzyk
IDEA: J.L. Massey, Xuejia Lai
