Our Gratitude

We wish to express our gratitude to many individuals from all over the world who have contributed their ideas, time and energy.

We thank in particular:

Frederic Alfieri
We thank Frederic Alfieri for translating BCWipe and BestCrypt Traveller software into French.

Gian A. Ameri
Our development team thanks Mr. Ameri for his patience and really useful information that helped us to solve a conflict between BestCrypt CryptoSwap utility and Symantec Norton Antivirus.

Warren R. Amole
Thanks for great help in discovering problems with wiping filesystem structures on NTFS disks, plus careful and detailed testing of experimental solutions. Special thanks from our BCWipe developers.

Vladimiro Andreini
We are thankful to Mr. Andreini for his work on translating the user interface of BCArchive software into Italian.

Marco Andreoli
Thanks for the translation of BestCrypt into Italian. We greatly appreciate the astounding amount of work that Mr. Andreoli performed with high quality and careful attention.

Ertunga Arsal
We thank Ertunga Arsal for translating BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Turkish.

Igor M. Arsenin
Thanks for fruitful discussions on the BestCrypt architecture and acting as a consultant on various kernel mode issues. Deep knowledge of these issues is reflected in the TaskInfo software developed by Igor Arsenin.

Maxo Benalal
We sincerely appreciate his fast and high quality work translating BestCrypt into French.

Ismo Bergroth, Data Fellows Corporation
Thanks for very professional help in solving a problem of compatibility between BestCrypt for Windows and F-Secure software.

Andre Borchert, TerraBay Networks
Thanks for great help in reproducing and solving a problem with Keyboard Filter in BestCrypt SHA-1 Key Generator. Step-by-step experiments and their detailed descriptions were very helpful for our developers.

Dieter Brauer
We thank Mr. Brauer for translating BestCrypt and BCArchive (with Help documentation) into German. We express our sincere appreciation for his great quality work.

Adal Chiriliuc, adal.eu.org
We greatly appreciate all the time and energy, as well as skill in programming and security, that Mr. Chiriliuc devoted to investigating BestCrypt for his detailed article on discovering the flaw in IV generating and his help in the work on fixing the problem.

Robin Collins
BestCrypt v.6 for Windows NT allows the creation of containers as streams inside files on NTFS disks. This type of Windows NT system-supplied steganography is supported by BestCrypt - our users should thank Mr. Collins for the idea to hide containers in NTFS streams.

William Crunkhorn
Thanks for providing a careful, professional and structured user's evaluation of BestCrypt software - positive and critical aspects of William Crunkhorn's evaluation helped us to improve the system.

Kadir Demirel
Great thanks for translating BestCrypt (and BCTraveller), BCArchive and BCWipe into Turkish and for supporting the forums concerning these programs:
Turkish Delight - BCArchive forum
Turkish Delight - BCWipe forum

Jean-Pascal Dumont
Thanks for translating the user interface of BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into French.

Ben Duncan, Ben Duncan Research - UK
Thans for leading contribution of detailed feedback to help BestCrypt work even better in some aspects of use - including automating BCWipe - and helping to extend and enhance BestCrypt's documentation.

Scott Duplichan, Compaq Computer Corporation
Our technical support and development teams would like to thank Mr. Duplichan for his highly efficient help in discovering, replicating and solving probably the most difficult problem in version 7 beta of BestCrypt.

Phil Flamingo
Thanks for thoroughly testing BCWipe, with clear and very helpful reports on discovered issues.

Marcello Fontolan
We thank Mr. Fontolan for translating the user interface of BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Brazilian Portuguese and believe that people from Brazil highly appreciate his work too.

Markus Gieringer, www.piccoclean.com
The Jetico Personal Firewall development team would like to thank Mr. Gieringer for his great assistance in investigating an unusual problem of loading low-level drivers of the firewall. His clear and friendly reports, as well as his patience, made our work highly productive and pleasant.

Glenn Greenberg
We would like to thank Mr. Greenberg for his help in solving an issue with BestCrypt's timeout function when a computer goes into suspend mode. We also thank Mr. Greenberg for his constructive reports concerning problems in BCArchive and for assistance in solving them.

Coen Gross
Together with our users from Holland we thank Mr. Gross for translating the user interface of BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Dutch.

Peter Gutmann, SFS author
Many thanks for working on SCSI drives and consultation on security problems.

Danial Hassanian
We wish to express our sincere appreciation to Mr. Hassanian for his careful and attentive work on translating BestCrypt into Farsi.

James Hawtin
Thanks for excellent professional reports about issues in BestCrypt for Linux. The reports were really helpful for fixes and improvements of BestCrypt software.

Greg Hayes, Technical Solutions, Raxco Software, Inc.
We thank Greg Hayes for helping us work on an issue that arised with BestCrypt Volume Encryption after activity of defragmenting programs. Greg's deep knowledge of PerfectDisk defragmenter internal was very helpful in analyzing possible solutions for the case and for testing a final result.

Norman D. Haynes
Thanks for help in locating drawbacks in BCWipe, and for clear reports which saved us lots of time and allowed us to improve the utility's performance.

Arthur Helwig
SecureDevice software statically stores the FAT chain for encrypted containers in a special buffer. This idea was the starting point of the development of FAT caching for the BestCrypt file containers.

Frank Heymann, Buhlmann Tube Solutions
Jetico's Development Team would like to thank Frank for his great help in enhancing BestCrypt Volume Encryption, for his highly professional reports, for his patience and for his belief in a successful result from our work.

Artur Jaszczyk
We thank Artur Jaszczyk for translating BestCrypt Container Encryption software into Polish.

Ali Khojah
Thanks for translating BestCrypt, BCArchive and BCWipe software into Arabic. Ali Khojah is the first person who worked on BestCrypt with new multi-language module, and his patience and purposefulness in the work was very helpful for enhancing the functionality. We believe that the work is highly appreciated by people speaking Arabic.

Pepa Kokes
We thank Mr. Kokes for a deep investigation of BestCrypt Volume Encryption and as a result - for his very helpful reports and suggestions. We also greatly appreciate his work on translating the software into Czech and believe that it will be very useful for people from Czech Republic.

Peter Kovacs
We thank Peter Kovacs for translating BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Hungarian.

Ieva Leimane
We thank Ieva Leimane for translating BCWipe and BestCrypt software into Latvian.

Konrad Lorinczi
Thanks for beta testing of BestCrypt v.6, contribution to solving the issues of compatibility with disk utilities, and fruitful and detailed advice on designing freeware encryption software compatible with a commercial version of BestCrypt.

Stefan Martens
We express our sincere appreciation for careful and intensive tests of the "Wipe MFT records" procedure of BCWipe and for raising the "MFT slack" question. We also specially thank Stefan Martens for testing BestCrypt Volume Encryption software, for his suggestions (many of them are already implemented in the software) and for his careful work on translating the user interface of BestCrypt Volume Encryption into German.

Bruno Magalhaes
Thanks for translating BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Portuguese.

Danilo Mascheretti
We greatly appreciate the work of Mr. Mascheretti on translating BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Italian.

John Menzies
Thanks for assisting us with English text on the Jetico website.

Manuel Montero (Senpai)
Thanks for translating Jetico Personal Firewall and BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Spanish.

Busselot Norbert
We sincerely appreciate Mr. Norbert for his work on translation of BCWipe into Dutch.

Hans van Paassen
Thanks for great help in beta testing of BestCrypt v.7, and for lots of useful advice and patience in explaining many details concerning discovered issues.

Martin Paul
We greatly appreciate all the time and energy that Martin Paul devoted to investigating BCWipe and sending detailed reports. His skills in programming and security have proven to be quite valuable.

Michael Oestergaard Pedersen
We thank Mr. Michael Oestergaard Pedersen for creating additional encryption modules: RC6 and SERPENT for BestCrypt. His RC6 encryption module is the fastest module ever created for the software.

Vladimir Philippov, xTech Software Development Company
Thanks for very helpful suggestions concerning BestCrypt development and for integrating BestCrypt to xTech applications.

Tomas Pleskot
Thanks for translating the user interface of BestCrypt into Czech.

Dr. Andreas Rieke, ISL Internet Sicherheitsloesungen GmbH
We greatly appreciate Dr.Rieke's help with BestCrypt for Linux bug hunting. Thanks for your cooperation with the Jetico team.

Ronys Rivero Rodríguez
Thanks for translating the user interface of BestCrypt and BCArchive software into Spanish.

Evgeny Roshin, Kaspersky Lab
We greatly appreciate Mr. Roshin's consulting that allowed us to solve the problem of compatibility between Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Jetico Personal Firewall. Futhermore, his friendly advice concerning other technical aspects significantly helped us to improve the firewall.

Ludo Rubben
We thank Ludo Rubben for translating BestCrypt software into Dutch.

Piotr Samborski
Our linux development team would like to thank Mr.Samborski for his outstanding cooperation in locating and fixing critical BestCrypt for Linux driver issues.

Kurt Seifried, seifried.org/security
We are thankful to Mr. Seifried for his analysis of wiping alternative data streams in files, created on NTFS disks, and for writing a very detailed and professional report on the problem.

Steven L. Shafer
Thanks for the report about installation issues on Windows 95.

Eric Shulenberger
Thanks for helping Jetico with English text in the BCWipe program.

Ian F. Silver, Information Industries Inc.
We would like to thank Mr. Silver for his professional reports (detailed, carefully structured and constructive) concerning re-encryption of BestCrypt file-containers.

Mike Spender, Information Networks Inc.
Thanks for reports and assistance with Windows system functions if Year 2099 is set on a computer.

Andrey Sporaw, www.sporaw.com
Our development team wishes to thank Andrey for his very professional reports and suggestions for BestCrypt software. Deep understanding of the functionality of our products and his skill in development software make his reports highly reasonable and helpful.

Maro
Thanks for translating the user interface of BestCrypt Volume Encryption software into Polish and for his reports and suggestions that were helpful in our software development. Jetico and Polish-speaking travellers are grateful to him for translating BestCrypt Traveller.

Jaroslaw Stemplewski
Thanks for software testing regarding compatibility with Norton Utilities.

Ludwig G. Strauss
Thanks for great help in using BestCrypt for Windows on compressed drives.

Marek Targowski
Thanks for excellent professional reports about issues in BCWipe. The reports were really helpful both for fixing the problems and for improvement of the BCWipe software.

Steve Tolliver
Thanks for important suggestions and advice on how to improve wiping of the Windows swap-file and compressed drives.

Chris Wagers
Our Jetico Personal Firewall development team greatly appreciates all the suggestions and reports Chris Wagers has sent us. The reports are definitely helpful for fixing and improving the beta version of the firewall and it is difficult to overestimate the help.

Mark Weinstein
Thanks foro very detailed and constructive advice concerning file wiping after moving the files to encrypted logical disks.

Anthony Williams
Our special thanks to Mr. Williams for his great help in editing the BestCrypt help files and User's Manual. Furthermore, we would like to thank him for his clear suggestions for improving the software.

Christopher R. Willis
Thanks for such useful suggestions concerning BestCrypt functionality for advanced users, constructive and helpful critics of the software.

Derek Zahn, Mijenix Corporation
Special thanks for his consulting which helped us with compatibility between BestCrypt and ZipFolders software.

Shao Ziyang
We are thankful to Shao Ziyang for translating BestCrypt, BestCrypt Volume Encryption, BCWipe and BCArchive software into Chinese and believe that people all over the world speaking Chinese will greatly appreciate the work too.