This chapter contains the copyright notes and acknowledgements
for the different ciphers, message digests, etc.
MD5 |
is copyright 'RSA Data Security, Inc'. The note at the
beginning of md5.h says:
License to copy and use this software is granted
provided that it is identified as the RSA Data Security, Inc MD5
Message-Digest Algorithm in all material mentioning
or referencing this software or this function.
License is also granted to make and use derivative
works provided that such works are identified as
derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc MD5 Message-Digest
Algorithm in all material mentioning or referencing
the derived work.
I consider the terms of the license fulfilled by this
quotation.
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HAVAL |
is copyright Yuliang Zheng and may not be sold or used as
inducement to buy a product without the written permission of
Yuliang Zheng. For technical questions or questions regarding the
code used here contact the copyright holder.
I made some minor changes to eliminate masses of cmd
{gcc}-warnings regarding operator priority in expressions, but
did not change the semantics.
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SHA / SHS |
was specified by the US government agency
NIST. Primary author of the code used here seems to be
Peter C. Gutmann, with heavily modifications from Uwe Hollerbach.
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RS ECC |
The Reed-Solomon error correcting coder is copyrighted by
Paul Flaherty under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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zlib |
The (de)compression library zlib is copyrighted by
Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
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RIPEMD-160 |
is copyright Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers and Bart Preneel.
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