Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following people:

Paul Le Roux for making his E4M source code available; some parts of TrueCrypt were derived from E4M.

Dr. Brian Gladman, who wrote the excellent AES, Twofish, SHA-512, and finite field GF(2¹²⁸) multiplication routines.

Peter Gutmann for his paper on random numbers, and for creating his cryptlib, which was the source of parts of the random number generator source code.

Wei Dai, who wrote the Serpent routines, and Dag Arne Osvik for his paper Speeding up Serpent.

Markus Friedl, who wrote the RIPEMD-160 routines (taken from OpenBSD).

Mark Adler et al., who wrote the Inflate routine.

The designers of the encryption algorithms, hash algorithms, and the mode of operation:
Horst Feistel, Don Coppersmith, Walt Tuchmann, Lars Knudsen, Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, Bruce Schneier, David Wagner, John Kelsey, Niels Ferguson, Doug Whiting, Chris Hall, Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen, Carlisle Adams, Stafford Tavares, Phillip Rogaway, Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers, Bart Preneel, Paulo S. L. M. Barreto.

All the others who have made this project possible, all who have morally supported us, and all who sent us bug reports or suggestions for improvements.


Thank you very much.