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#CryptoAnarchy

3 entries tagged CryptoAnarchy.

People (1)

  • Timothy May Timothy May was a former Intel physicist who wrote 'The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,' cofounded the cypherpunks mailing list, and devised the BlackNet thought experiment.

Concepts (2)

  • BlackNet BlackNet was Timothy May's 1993 thought experiment for an anonymous information market built on public-key encryption, remailers, message pools, and digital cash, circulated on the cypherpunks list as a working precursor to dark markets and anonymous-leak platforms.
  • Cypherpunks The cypherpunks were a cryptography-and-privacy movement organized around a mailing list founded in 1992 by Eric Hughes, Timothy May, and John Gilmore, whose advocacy of strong encryption and digital cash against state control ran forward into Bitcoin and WikiLeaks.