Ncat AUTHORS
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Ncat is based on the original "Netcat" written by Hobbit
(hobbit@avian.org) circa 1994. Ncat combines the original Netcat feature
set as well as various other ideas from other Netcat-like products, such
as CryptCat, Socat, GNU Netcat, etc.

Ncat was originally written from the ground up by Chris Gibson
(chris@linuxops.net) and was funded by the Google Summer of Code Program
2005.

Development, bug fixes, security auditing, improvements by Sean
<infamous42md@hotpop.com>

Starting with the Google Summer of Code 2008, Ncat development was
picked back up by Mixter (mixter@gmail.com) and Kris Katterjohn
(katterjohn@gmail.com).  This included many bug fixes, new features and
code cleanups.

The Ncat requirements, ideas and general support and help were given by
Fyodor (fyodor@insecure.org)

Many helpful comments, suggestions and other useful information was
taken from the nmap-dev list (@insecure.org) as well as other
contributors via email.

Ncat shares the Nmap infrastructure libraries (Nsock and Nbase) which
were originally written by Fyodor (fyodor@insecure.org) and are property
of Insecure.org LLC.
