Openwall Project's primary focus is in development of information security
related free software, information security research, publications,
and community activities aimed at making existing free software safer to use.
We also offer a number of services as a means to
try to fund said non-commercial activities.
And we accept donations.
You can make a donation online via PayPal
(including directly with a credit or debit card, without a PayPal account)
or when you order Owl on a CD.
Alternatively, to donate money, hardware, or services relevant to the project,
please e-mail
<donations at openwall.com>.
Please note that donating to our projects does not grant you
any specific rights to the software we produce.
Making a donation is your chance to request further work on a particular
project we have or to request a particular feature you may be interested in.
Of course, the resulting software will remain available to everyone,
not just you.
While donations are not US tax deductible as charitable contribution,
they may be deductible as an operating expense, and if someone is
so inclined, they should ask for the advice of their accountant.
The same applies to other countries, where corporations can make
deductible donations under the terms of "Good Will".
The following people, projects, and companies have donated to our projects
so far:
- Virtual Unix project has provided the initial funding for
Owl (including the purchase of two x86 SMP boxes).
- Brett Eldridge of Atomic Gears
has donated a Sun Ultra 5 box to do Owl builds for SPARC on, and
ksoze helped receive that box. Thanks to both of you!
- DataForce ISP has been providing reliable
Internet connectivity and hosting for the projects for years (as well
as letting Solar work on the community projects during work hours).
They also have assembled two of the Owl development boxes.
- Russian Express ISP
used to host one of the Owl development boxes and
ftp://ftp2.ru.openwall.com
(currently also at DataForce).
- CivicActions, a Drupal consulting company
has partially funded the development of
phpass and efforts on getting it into Drupal,
as well as of our
implementation of OpenSSH key blacklisting.
- The following people, projects, and companies are currently supporting us with recurring monetary donations:
(This list will likely stay right on this page as long as the donations are being made.
Higher amounts will be listed first.)
Currently none.
- The following people, projects, and companies have made monetary donations of $500 (US) or above:
(This list will likely stay right on this page well beyond 2011.
Donate now and have your link exposed right here for longer.
Higher amounts will be listed first.)
Ing. Buero Fischer GmbH - $700
- The following people, projects, and companies have made monetary donations of $100 (US) or above in 2010:
(This list might be moved to a sub-page in 2011 or 2012.
Higher amounts will be listed first.)
None so far, be the first.
Please note that with
our current use of "nofollow"
we expect a lot fewer donations,
but we expect most of those relatively few donations to arrive from
people, projects, and (preferably) companies who are actually in IT
unlike much of what you see below
(we did not have "nofollow" in place during most of 2009).
That said, we do not want donations from people who have own free and
Open Source software and/or non-commercial computer security projects.
That's because we consider ourselves part of these same communities,
and moving money back and forth within the communities only benefits the
payment processors.
- The following people, projects, and companies have made monetary donations of $100 (US) or above in 2009:
(This list is to be moved to a sub-page in January 2011 or sooner.)
Wohlford LLC - $250
PokerBonusSource.com -
Poker Bonus - $210
blumenversender.com -
Blumenversand - $201
Christian Müller of Kredit Engel - $200
GamblingSites.org -
Online Gambling Websites - $175
Casino Bonus - $170
ChristianDatingService.org -
Christian Dating Service - $161
HorsePoker.net -
H.O.R.S.E Poker - $160
pokersites.co.uk -
Poker Sites - $155
Kuehlbox Profi Shop - $151
baufi24.de - Baufinanzierung - $150
CasinoWarehouse.eu - Internet Gambling Sites - $150
ExperienceDebtRelief.com -
Debt Relief - $150
Benzin im Blut - $135
webmaster-resource.de -
Partnerprogramme - $130
Jake Mogul - $126
PokerBonusCodes.com -
US Poker Sites - $126
Accurate Perforating -
Perforated Stainless Steel - $125
Bonus Geek - $125
Schumacher Cargo Logistics -
International Cargo Shipping - $125
Loose Change Poker.com -
Cake Poker Rakeback - $122
LatestPokerBonuses.com -
Poker Bonuses - $121
lineslots.com -
Online Slots - $121
ReviewPokerRooms.com -
Poker Room Reviews - $120
sommerhusudlejning.dk -
Sommerhusudlejning i Danmark og Europa - $120
Verlobungsringe - $120
LaurensCaregivers.com - $118
WhichDraft.com -
Free Legal Forms - $115
ApplianceWarehouseDirect.com -
Appliance Repair - $110
GutesHandy.de -
Handyshop - $110
WhatNumberIsThis.com -
Reverse Phone Number Lookup - $110
Partease.com -
Wedding Favors - $107
Poker Deposit Options - $106
baufinanzierung-baukredit.de - Baufinanzierung Vergleich - $105
Husky Heating & Air Conditioning - $105
Riesterrente Ratgeber -
Riester-Renten im Vergleich - $105
TOPCONTOR.COM -
Fett weg mit Ultraschall ohne Operation - $105
17799.com -
ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 Forum - $101
Shareview.us -
HD Videos - $101
With This Favor -
Wedding Favors - $101
1WeddingSource -
Wedding Favors - $100
7CardStudStrategy.com -
Seven Card Stud - $100
abnehmen-aktuell.de -
Abnehmen Forum - $100
AutoGlassDirectory.NET -
Auto Glass Repair - $100
Berlin49 -
Ferienwohnung Berlin - $100
Bhelliom Enterprises Corp -
Fat Burner - $100
Body Building Resource -
Muscle Building - $100
Creative Gems, LLC -
Stainless Steel Jewelry - $100
IceStandard.org -
wedding favors - $100
Merry Wings -
gifts shop - $100
Money for Mums -
Family Finances and Pregnancy Information - $100
northumbrian-cottages.info -
Northumbria Cottage Accommodation - $100
OutsourceTranslation.com -
Outsource Translation Services - $100
PokerSite.org -
Poker Site Reviews - $100
PokerTrikz.com -
poker training - $100
ReinStyle Gurt Taschen Shop -
Gurt Taschen - $100
Sommerhusudlejning.se -
luksus sommerhuse udlejes - $100
Stone Street Capital, LLC -
Sell Structured Settlement - $100
Tagesgeld Angebote - $100
Translationz.com.au -
Sydney Spanish translator - $100
- Many people, projects, and companies have made monetary donations in 2008, as well as in 2007 and prior years
- Folks have purchased all books from Solar's Amazon Wish List.
Sorry, no names listed as not all have even left a note with their gifts.
We're grateful to all of you!
The following people have donated huge amounts of their precious time
working on our projects (primarily Owl):
- Solar Designer
is the author of most of the individual pieces of software released under
Openwall and is leading the
Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) project
- Dmitry V. Levin is the most active Owl developer since 2005
(although he had contributed to the project in earlier years as well);
he is also importing
ALT Linux's enhancements to our
software back into Owl
- Alexandr D. Kanevskiy was an Owl developer in the early months of
the project
- Michail Litvak is an Owl developer
- Rafal Wojtczuk is an Owl developer and the primary author of our
tcb suite
implementing the alternative password shadowing scheme
- (GalaxyMaster) is an Owl developer
- Andreas Ericsson is an Owl developer
- Juan M. Bello Rivas is an Owl developer
- Andrey V. Stolyarov
is the primary developer of the Owl 2.0 installer
- Jarno Huuskonen is a current Owl developer, maintaining our
Mutt package
- Simon B has created the initial version of the CVS package for Owl
- Denis Ducamp has contributed
French translations of our documentation
and of the
security advisories
- Matthias Schmidt has created the initial version of the
DHCP suite package for Owl
and maintains
German translations of Owl documentation
- Gremlin from Kremlin
maintains
Russian translations of Owl documentation
- Gleb Todosov has created the artwork for
official Owl CDs
- Dug Song has co-authored some of our publications (with Solar)
- Erik Winkler has produced and donated the initial Mac OS X package of
John the Ripper Pro
Additionally, our developers have been spending their own money on
hardware, services, and travel relevant to the projects.
Lots of folks have contributed modifications to software we maintain,
their names are to be found on the "contributed resources" lists on other
pages of this website.
