#Privacy
4 entries tagged Privacy.
People (2)
- David Chaum David Chaum is the American cryptographer who invented anonymous digital cash, devised the mix network and the blind signature, wrote a 1982 dissertation that anticipated the blockchain, and built the DigiCash eCash system whose 1998 bankruptcy left the cypherpunks to pursue trustless money.
- Phil Zimmermann Phil Zimmermann is the programmer and anti-nuclear activist who wrote Pretty Good Privacy and released it for free in 1991, became the target of a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong encryption as an exported munition, and went on to build the encrypted-voice tools Zfone and Silent Circle.
Concepts (2)
- 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.
- Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy is the email-encryption software Phil Zimmermann released for free in 1991, whose international spread triggered a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong cryptography as a munition and that the cypherpunks made a central front of the crypto wars.