
SnortSam has to thank a lot of people. They are listed here in no particular
order (except maybe alphabetical):


Aaron Carr:
    For making a development machine and PIX available for development of the
    PIX plugin.

Ali Basel:
    For writing the Cisco ACL plugin, the documenation for it and the SNMP-
    interface-down plugin with documentation.

Bjorn Jansson:
    For his great assistance in hunting down cross-endian related bug.

Christopher Lyon:
    For providing a lot of info on the Netscreen commands and ideas on how to
    block on Netscreen. He also made a machine available to test and debug the
    plugin.

Craig Gill:
    For hunting down several bugs, and great suggestions or 'feature requests'.

Dave Robinson:
    For his patience during trouble shooting.

Erik Sneep:
    For writing the IPFilter (ipf) plugin.

Fabrizio Tivano:
    For writing the IPtables (iptables) plugin.

Hector Paterno:
    For writing the PacketFilter (pf) and IPchains plugins.

Jason Amsden:
    For helping cleaning the code so that it compiles smooth under various
    platforms.

Jason Hershcopf:
    For trouble shooting assistance and bug reports.

Jeff Boles:
    For providing suggestions and info on how to block on Cisco routers.
    (This was before Ali developed the plugin independently).

John Hall:
    For lots of support and trouble shooting assistance with various Firewall-1
    versions.

Justin Mitzimberg:
    For additional information for the Cisco PIX plugin.

Marco Supino:
    For trouble shooting assistance with endian problems, and compilation
    of the first Solaris versions.

Michael Boman:
    For feature requests, but mainly for being a great sport :)

Mike Koponick
    For bugging me to change the PIX plugin so that it can log into RADIUS
    configured PIXes, and for testing the code.

Paul Knibbs:
    For great assistance in debugging OPSEC related code. Thanks mate!

Peter Barganski:
    For trouble shooting SAM related problems.    

Ralf Hildebrandt:
    For debugging assistance, feature requests, and code clean-ups.

Darryl Sokoloski:
    For the daemon mode and fix for socket-reuse setting and for patch adding
    the Sig_ID. Also, for the idea of the USR2 signal handling, which reloads
    the state file (in case external programs modified it).

Thomas Maier:
    For trouble shooting and testing under Solaris. He also made a machine 
    available for compilation of Solaris versions. Vielen Dank!
    Furthermore, he is the author of the Watchguard plugin.

Tony Nelson:
    For trouble shooting and getting code to compile under various platforms.

Vincent Corriveu:
    For trouble shooting and feature requests.

Bruno Scatolin:
    For the EBtables plugin.

Joe Mazzie:
    For the idea and documentation of the 8signs plugin.

Nima Sharifi Mehr:
    For the idea and writing the ISA Server plugin. Also for the Windows
    Service handling code.

Peter:
    For the idea of the CHX-I plugin.

Olaf Schreck:
    For picking up where Hector left off, providing a patch to support newer
    versions of OpenBSD, and the Makefile.

Brent Erickson and Sergio Salazar:
    For the idea, sample commands and testing of the Cisco null-route method.

Robert Rolfe <rob@wehostwebpages.com>
    For the renewed idea of the ipfw2 plugin based on tables, development of
    plugin sources and testing.

Jeff Kell:
    For the idea of the USR1 signal handling which reinstates previous blocks.

Mark P Clift:
    For the ISA 2004 Server plugin.

Luis Marichal:
    For adding direction and connection based blocking to IP tables.

Paul Tatarsky:
    For his assistance in fixing integer length issues in Twofish routines on
    64 bit systems.

and others for providing feedback.


And finally, Marty Roesch and everyone else on the Snort Team for making such
a great Intrusion Detection System!

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