21 BTCEric Hughes
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In plain words
Eric Hughes: Mathematician and programmer; co-founder of the cypherpunks, author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto. Founded and ran the cypherpunks mailing list, hosted the first anonymous remailer and coined the motto “Cypherpunks write code”.
Background
- Privacy, anonymous remailers, cryptography, electronic money
Connections
- Timothy C. May: Co-founded the cypherpunks movement
- John Gilmore: Co-founded the cypherpunks movement
In their own words
“Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.” (9 Mar 1993, via essay)
“Cypherpunks write code.” (9 Mar 1993, via essay)
See also
- Timothy C. MayTimothy C. May: Writer and Intel scientist; founder of crypto-anarchism, co-founder of the cypherpunks. Wrote The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto in 1988 and co-founded the cypherpunks mailing list in 1992 with Eric Hughes and John Gilmore. Wei Dai's b-money opens with his name.
- John GilmoreJohn Gilmore: Co-founder of the EFF and of the cypherpunks. Co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the cypherpunks movement. The list ran at cypherpunks@toad.com, his domain: Adam Back's 1997 Hashcash announcement went to that address.
References
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto activism.net
- en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org