Nikto was originally written and maintained by Sullo, CIRT, Inc. It is currently maintained by David Lodge. LibWhisker was written by Rain Forrest Puppy
Many people have provided feedback, fixes, and suggestions. This list attempts to make note of those people, though not all contributors are listed. In no particular order:
Nikto 2 Testing: Paul Woroshow, Mark G. Spencer, Michel Arboi, Jericho, rfp
Jericho (attrition.org/OSVDB/OSF). Support/ideas/tests/corrections/spam and help matching OSVDB IDs to tests.
rfp (wiretrip.net). LibWhisker and continuing support.
Erik Cabetas for many updates and fixes.
Jake Kouns (OSVDB/OSF).
Jabra (spl0it.org) for XML DTD, XML templates and supporting code.
Stephen Valdez. Extensive testing. We all miss you.
S Saady. Extensive testing.
Zeno (cgisecurity.com). Nikto mirroring.
P Eronen (nixu.com). Provided many code fixes.
M Arboi. Great support by writing the code to make Nikto work within Nessus, as well as bug reports.
T Seyrat. Maintains Nikto for the Debian releases.
J DePriest. Ideas/fixes.
P Woroshow. Ideas/fixes.
fr0stman. Tests.
H Heimann. Tests.
Xiola (xiola.net). Web design and more.
Ryan Dewhurst. Domain guessing code.
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