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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 you can purchase an Openwall t-shirt from 0-day Clothing.

We also accept bitcoins, to address 17ocqgf5sdvpazrbhqRbcTEv7zNahtk4Bb.

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 for years. Donate now and have your link exposed right here for longer. Higher amounts will be listed first.)
  Kenichi Mori - $1,805
  Ing. Buero Fischer GmbH - $700
  
• The following people, projects, and companies have made monetary donations of $100 (US) or above in 2010 and later:
  (This list might eventually be moved to a sub-page. Higher amounts will be listed first.)
  Chris Bopp - $150
  Network Cabling - $110
  Mage Mojo - Magento hosting - $100
  Robert Wetzlmayr - $100
  SnapAppointments, LLC - $100
  Team CrackHeads - $100
  ...and others who did not approve listing their names here.
  Please note that with our current use of "nofollow" on links to irrelevant sites we expect a lot fewer donations than we used to receive in 2009 and earlier (we did not use "nofollow" during most of 2009), but we expect most of those relatively few donations to arrive from people, projects, and (preferably) companies who are actually in IT. 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.
• Many people, projects, and companies have made monetary donations in 2009, 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 an active Owl developer since 2005 (although he had contributed to the project in prior years as well); he is also importing ALT Linux's enhancements to our software back into Owl
• Vasiliy Kulikov is an Owl developer since August 2010
• 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 (currently available as articles)
• 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, which was in use for CDs shipped since 2002 till 2008
• 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
• Rich Rumble has designed the CSS menus for our website

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.