The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.5:
Pharylon
The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8:
Andrew Grosser, Antonio Royo, dmitry.ribakov@gmail.com, PhreePhly, and encryptomatic.com.
The following people have contributed to the C# Bouncy Castle Cryptography Package.
Thanks, may your castles never deflate!
Kaiser Yang <kaiseryang@yahoo.com> - initial port of the lightweight API and ASN.1 library. Finding BigInteger loop problem.
Asier Murciego <a.murciego@captiva-sys.es> - Further patching to BigInteger library.
Megan Woods <megan.woods@widestreet.com.au> - X509 certificate generation, RSA/DSA digest signature classes.
David Del Vecchio <ddelvecc@virginia.edu> - patches to RSA Pkcs1 Signature generation OID issues, help with clarifications on DateTime and certificates.
Nelson Fernandez <nelson-bc@kpanic.com.ar> - patches to allow compilation under mono.
Paulo Soares <psoares@consiste.pt> - patches to X509CertificateParser, C# port of JZlib plus inflater/deflater streams, C# port of Apache BZip2 classes.
Pawel Niewiadomski <11110000b@gmail.com> - patches for X509 and CMS, unit test for time classes.
Jesper Johansen <jesper@hc.jay.net> - bug fix for DerT61String encodings.
Adam Sternberg <agsternberg@gmail.com> - identified problem with generation of PGP public keyrings.
Kirill Zhuklinets <zhuklinets_k@gaz-is.ru> - initial submission of bulk of Asn1.Esf classes (RFC 3126).
Dr Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@rcrt.co.uk> - identified problem with BigInteger.ModPow for negative exponents.
Mauricio Ulate <mulate@gmail.com> - identified problem with non-ASCII pass phrases in PGP.
John Allberg <John.Allberg@teliasonera.com> - initial implementation of CryptoApiRandomGenerator.
Mattias Öhrn <mattias.ohrn@gmail.com> - identified problem with Pkcs12Store.Save and provided fix.
Jen Andre <jandre@gmail.com> - initial implementation of case-insensitive searches for PGP keyrings.
#Cyrille37# <cyrille37@gmail.com> - identified problem with BigInteger.ModInverse for negative values.
David Reis Jr <davidreis@yahoo.com> - bug fix for X509CrlStoreSelector handling of NextUpdate, fix handling of null parameters for DSA in key factories, initial port of Pkix namespace and supporting tests.
Ivan Peev <ivan.peev@cozyroc.com> - bug fix for version string displayed in PGP armored output.
Hector Ornelas Aciga <hector.ornelas@sat.gob.mx> - patch to add support for PKCS#5 Scheme 2 keys.
Tom Van Holle <tvh@dsoft.be> - patch to add new class: Pkcs10CertificationRequestDelaySigned.
Kalev Lember <kalev@smartlink.ee> - patch to fix compilation problem under Mono 2.8+.
Kyle Hamilton <kyanha.bouncycastle@kyanha.net> - identified problem with BigInteger.Multiply, patch for MiscPemGenerator infinite recursion, proposed improvements in use of random numbers.
Atanas Krachev <akrachev@gmail.com> - added support for revocation signatures in OpenPGP.
Torsten Moschny <t.moschny@web.de> - identified problem where PrivateKeyFactory/PublicKeyFactory failed to preserve publicKeyParamSet for EC keys.
Thomas Heggelund <the@dips.no> - identified problem with RSAParameters fields requiring zero-byte padding to satisfy .NET.
Laszlo Magyar <lmagyar1973@gmail.com> - patch to fix problem with SubjectDirectoryAttributes constructor.
Tim Whittington (https://github.com/timw) - ports of ChaCha, GMAC, Memoable, Poly1305, Skein, SM3, Threefish, XSalsa20. Registerised Salsa20 core.
Oscar Jacobsson (https://github.com/OscarAyoy) - patch to fix DerEnumerated constructor (including test coverage).
Michael Krueger <michael.krueger@secardeo.com> - patch to fix Asn1.Cmp.RevDetails constructor.
Daniel Nauck <daniel.nauck@gmail.com> - patch for Portable Class Library support.
John Allberg <john@ayoy.se> - improvements to Portable Class Library patch.
Oren Novotny (https://github.com/onovotny) - developed and maintained a fork supporting Portable Class Library, worked closely with us to integrate the changes back into the main project.
Nicolas Dorier (https://github.com/NicolasDorier) - patch to fix culture-dependent lookups in MacUtilities.
Artem Storozhuk <storojs72@gmail.com> initial implementation of DSTU7564 (digest) and DSTU7624 (cipher) and their associated modes.