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+Designers
+---------
+
+- **ChaCha20:** Daniel J. Bernstein.
+- **Poly1305:** Daniel J. Bernstein.
+- **BLAKE2:**   Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Christian Winnerlein, Samuel Neves,
+                and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn.
+- **Argon2:**   Alex Biryukov, Daniel Dinu, and Dmitry Khovratovich.
+- **X25519:**   Daniel J. Bernstein.
+- **EdDSA:**    Daniel J. Bernstein, Bo-Yin Yang, Niels Duif, Peter
+                Schwabe, and Tanja Lange.
+
+Implementors
+------------
+
+- **ChaCha20:** Loup Vaillant, implemented from spec.
+- **Poly1305:** Loup Vaillant, implemented from spec.
+- **BLAKE2b:**  Loup Vaillant, implemented from spec.
+- **Argon2i:**  Loup Vaillant, implemented from spec.
+- **X25519:**   Daniel J. Bernstein, taken and packaged from SUPERCOP
+                ref10.
+- **EdDSA:**    Loup Vaillant, with bits and pieces from SUPERCOP ref10.
+
+Test suite
+----------
+
+Designed and implemented by Loup Vaillant, using _libsodium_ (by many
+authors), and _ed25519-donna_ (by Andrew Moon —floodyberry).
+
+Manual
+------
+
+Loup Vaillant, Fabio Scotoni, and Michael Savage.
+
+- Loup Vaillant did a first draft.
+- Fabio Scotoni rewrote the manual into proper man pages (and
+  substantially changed it in the process).
+- Michael Savage did extensive editing and proofreading.
+
+Thanks
+------
+
+Fabio Scotoni provided much needed advice about testing, interface,
+packaging, and the general direction of the whole project.  He also
+redesigned the monocypher.org style sheets.
+
+Mike Pechkin and André Maroneze found bugs in earlier versions of
+Monocypher.
+
+Andrew Moon clarified carry propagation in modular arithmetic, and
+provided advice and code that significantly simplified and improved
+Elligator2 mappings.
+
+Mike Hamburg explained comb algorithms, including the signed
+all-bits-set comb described in his 2012 paper, Fast and compact
+elliptic-curve cryptography.  This made EdDSA signatures over twice as
+fast.
+
+Samuel Lucas found many typos in both the manual and the website.
+
+Jens Alfke added some #ifdefs that enabled Monocypher to compile into
+a C++ namespace, preventing symbol collisions with similarly-named
+functions in other crypto libraries.