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+The following people (sorted alphabetically) contributed bug reports, useful
+information, or were generally just helpful people to talk to:
+
+Jeff B
+Mike Desjardins
+Matthew Gregan
+Hany Greiss
+Friedemann Kleint
+Ying-Chieh Liao
+Dan Nicolaescu
+Vaclav Ovsik
+Ken Perano
+Darren Starsmore
+Kaushik Veeraraghavan
+Dominik Vogt
+James Widener
+
+Barry Kavanagh of AEP Systems Ltd kindly provided an AEP2000 crypto card and
+drivers, enabling the creation of Botan's AEP engine module.
+
+
+In addition, the following people have unknowingly contributed help:
+
+  The implementation of DES is based off a public domain implementation by Phil
+  Karn from 1994 (he, in turn, credits Richard Outerbridge and Jim Gillogly).
+
+  Rijndael and Square are based on the reference implementations written by
+  the inventors, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen.
+
+  The Serpent S-boxes used were discovered by Dag Arne Osvik and detailed in
+  his paper "Speeding Up Serpent".
+
+  Matthew Skala's public domain twofish.c (as given in GnuPG 0.9.8) provided
+  the basis for my Twofish code (particularly the key schedule).
+
+  Some of the hash functions (MD5, SHA-1, etc) use an optimized implementation
+  of one of the boolean functions, which was discovered by Colin Plumb.
+
+  The design of Randpool takes some of it's design principles from those
+  suggested by Eric A. Young in his SSLeay documentation, Peter Gutmann's paper
+  "Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers", and the paper
+  "Cryptanalytic Attacks on Pseudorandom Number Generators", by Kelsey,
+  Schneier, Wagner, and Hall.