Copyrights of the used algorithms and implementations

is copyright 'RSA Data Security, Inc'. The note at the beginning of md5.h says:

License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it is identified as the RSA Data Security, Inc MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm in all material mentioning or referencing this software or this function. License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided that such works are identified as derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm in all material mentioning or referencing the derived work.

is copyright Yuliang Zheng and may not be sold or used as inducement to buy a product without the written permission of Yuliang Zheng. For technical questions or questions regarding the code used here contact the copyright holder. I made some minor changes to eliminate masses of cmd {gcc}-warnings regarding operator priority in expressions, but did not change the semantics.

was specified by the US government agency NIST. Primary author of the code used here seems to be Peter C. Gutmann, with heavily modifications from Uwe Hollerbach.

The Reed-Solomon error correcting coder is copyrighted by Paul Flaherty under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

The (de)compression library zlib is copyrighted by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

is copyright Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers and Bart Preneel.