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== Notable cypherpunks ==
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[[File:John Gilmore 2009.jpg|thumb|right|[[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]] is one of the founders of the Cypherpunks mailing list, the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]], and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in [[Usenet]] and is a major contributor to the [[GNU Project]].]]
[[File:Julian Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy cropped.jpg|thumb|right|[[Julian Assange]], a well-known cypherpunk who advocates for the use of [[cryptography]] to ensure privacy on the [[Internet]]]]
Cypherpunks list participants included many notable computer industry figures. Most were list regulars, although not all would call themselves "cypherpunks".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/09/55114 |magazine=Wired |title=Warm Party for a Code Group |date=September 13, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305092908/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/09/55114 |archive-date=March 5, 2009 }}</ref> The following is a list of noteworthy cypherpunks and their achievements:
* [[Marc Andreessen]]: co-founder of Netscape which invented SSL
* [[Jacob Appelbaum]]: Former [[Tor Project]] employee, political [[advocate]]
* [[Julian Assange]]: [[WikiLeaks]] founder, [[Rubberhose (file system)|deniable cryptography]] inventor, journalist; co-author of ''[[Underground (Suelette Dreyfus book)|Underground]]''; author of ''[[Cypherpunks (book)|Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet]]''; member of the [[Julian Assange|International Subversives]]. Assange has stated that he joined the list in late 1993 or early 1994.<ref name=":0" /> An archive of his cypherpunks mailing list posts<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://marc.info/?a=90366091900010 |title='Julian Assange ' posts - MARC |access-date=2015-10-04 |archive-date=2016-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101223032/https://marc.info/?a=90366091900010 }}</ref> is at the [[MARC (archive)|Mailing List Archives]].
* [[Derek Atkins]]: computer scientist, computer security expert, and one of the people who factored RSA-129
* [[Adam Back]]: inventor of [[Hashcash]] and of NNTP-based Eternity networks; co-founder of [[Blockstream]]
* [[Jim Bell]]: author of "Assassination Politics"
* [[Steven Bellovin]]: Bell Labs researcher; later Columbia professor; Chief Technologist for the US Federal Trade Commission in 2012
* [[Matt Blaze]]: Bell Labs researcher; later professor at University of Pennsylvania; found flaws in the [[Clipper Chip]]<ref name="Rodger-2001-Nov-30">{{cite web|last1=Rodger|first1=Will|title=Cypherpunks RIP|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/30/cypherpunks_rip/|website=The Register|access-date=13 July 2016|date=30 November 2001|archive-date=13 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713170512/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/30/cypherpunks_rip/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Eric Blossom]]: designer of the Starium cryptographically secured mobile phone; founder of the [[GNU Radio]] project
* [[Jon Callas]]: technical lead on OpenPGP specification; co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of PGP Corporation; co-founder with Philip Zimmermann of [[Silent Circle (software)|Silent Circle]]
* [[Bram Cohen]]: creator of [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]]
* [[Matt Curtin]]: founder of Interhack Corporation; first faculty advisor of the [[Ohio State University]] Open Source Club;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opensource.osu.edu/about/officers|title=Officers - Open Source Club at Ohio State University|access-date=2011-07-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205216/http://opensource.osu.edu/about/officers|archive-date=2016-03-04}}</ref> lecturer at Ohio State University
* [[Hugh Daniel]] (deceased): former Sun Microsystems employee; manager of the FreeS/WAN project (an early and important freeware [[IPsec]] implementation)
* [[Jack Dorsey]]: Founder of Twitter and Block.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/Famicoman/cypherpunks-mailing-list-archives/blob/master/cryptome.org/cpnkwho-102296.txt|access-date=2025-04-23|website=Github|language=en|url-status=live|author=Mike Dank|title=cypherpunks-mailing-list-archives}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95340832101714&w=2|access-date=2025-04-23|website=Mailing list ARChives|language=en|url-status=live|author=Jak Daemon (Jack Dorsey)|title=Re: ZIP Codes}}</ref>
* [[Suelette Dreyfus]]: [[Rubberhose (file system)|deniable cryptography]] co-inventor, journalist, co-author of ''[[Underground (Suelette Dreyfus book)|Underground]]''
* [[Hal Finney (cypherpunk)|Hal Finney]] (deceased): cryptographer; main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP; designer of [[Proof-of-work system|RPOW]]
* [[Eva Galperin]]: malware researcher and security advocate; Electronic Frontier Foundation activist<ref>{{cite news|last1=Franchesci-Bicchierai|first1=Lorenzo|title=Egypt's New Internet Surveillance System Remains Shrouded in Mystery|url=http://mashable.com/2014/09/19/egypts-new-internet-surveillance-system/|access-date=23 September 2014|date=20 September 2014|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205003334/https://mashable.com/2014/09/19/egypts-new-internet-surveillance-system/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]]*: Sun Microsystems' fifth employee; co-founder of the Cypherpunks and the Electronic Frontier Foundation; project leader for FreeS/WAN
* [[Mike Godwin]]: Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer; electronic rights advocate
* [[Ian Goldberg]]*: professor at University of Waterloo; co-designer of the off-the-record messaging protocol
* [[Rop Gonggrijp]]: founder of [[XS4ALL]]; co-creator of the Cryptophone
* [[Matthew D. Green]], influential in the development of the [[Zcash]] system<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/893110747991093250|access-date=2021-08-24|website=Twitter|language=en|archive-date=2021-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824174254/https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/893110747991093250|url-status=live|author=Matthew Green |title=The pragmatist in me says "who cares, this will obviously work better if it has a few big nodes". The cypherpunk in me says "F that".}}</ref>
* [[Sean Hastings]]: founding CEO of [[Havenco]]; co-author of the book ''God Wants You Dead''<ref>{{cite book |first= Sean |last=Hastings |title=God Wants You Dead |publisher=Vera Verba|edition= 1st |date=2007|isbn=978-0979601118}}</ref>
* [[Johan Helsingius]]: creator and operator of [[Penet remailer]]
* [[Nadia Heninger]]: assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania; security researcher<ref>{{cite news|last1=Evans|first1=Jon|title=Nadia Heninger Is Watching You|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/12/nadia-heninger-is-watching-you/|access-date=23 September 2014|date=13 January 2013|archive-date=23 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623151208/https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/12/nadia-heninger-is-watching-you/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Robert Hettinga]]: founder of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography; originator of the idea of [[Financial cryptography]] as an applied subset of cryptography<ref>{{Cite conference <!-- Citation bot no -->|last=Grigg|first=Ian|date=2001|editor-last=Frankel|editor-first=Yair|chapter=Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers|chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F3-540-45472-1_23|title=Financial Cryptography|conference =4th International Conference on Financial Cryptography, FC 2000 Anguilla, British West Indies, February 20–24, 2000 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science|language=en|location=Berlin, Heidelberg|publisher=Springer|volume=1962|pages=332–348|doi=10.1007/3-540-45472-1_23|isbn=978-3-540-45472-4|access-date=2020-10-23|archive-date=2020-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026045626/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45472-1_23|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Mark Alan Horowitz|Mark Horowitz]]: author of the first [[Key server (cryptographic)|PGP key server]]
* Tim Hudson: co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to [[OpenSSL]]
* [[Eric Hughes (cypherpunk)|Eric Hughes]]: founding member of Cypherpunks; author of ''[[A Cypherpunk's Manifesto]]''
* [[Peter Junger]] (deceased): law professor at Case Western Reserve University
* [[Paul Carl Kocher|Paul Kocher]]: president of [[Cryptography Research|Cryptography Research, Inc.]]; co-author of the SSL 3.0 protocol
* [[Ryan Lackey]]: co-founder of [[HavenCo]], the world's first [[data haven]]
* [[Brian LaMacchia]]: designer of [[XKMS]]; research head at Microsoft Research
* [[Ben Laurie]]: founder of The Bunker, core [[OpenSSL]] team member, [[Google]] engineer.
* [[Jameson Lopp]]: software engineer, CTO of Casa
* [[Morgan Marquis-Boire]]: researcher, security engineer, and privacy activist
* Matt Thomlinson (phantom): security engineer, leader of Microsoft's security efforts on Windows, Azure and Trustworthy Computing, CISO at [[Electronic Arts]]
* [[Timothy C. May]] (deceased): former Assistant Chief Scientist at Intel; author of ''A Crypto Anarchist Manifesto'' and the ''[[Cyphernomicon]]''; a founding member of the Cypherpunks mailing list
* [[Jude Milhon]] (deceased; aka "St. Jude"): a founding member of the Cypherpunks [[mailing list]], credited with naming the group; co-creator of ''[[Mondo 2000]]'' magazine
* [[Satoshi Nakamoto]]: Pseudonym for the inventor(s) of Bitcoin.
* [[Sameer Parekh]]: former CEO of [[C2Net]] and co-founder of the [[CryptoRights Foundation]] human rights non-profit
* [[Vipul Ved Prakash]]: co-founder of Sense/Net; author of ''Vipul's Razor''; founder of Cloudmark
* [[Runa Sandvik]]: Tor developer, political advocate
* [[Len Sassaman]] (deceased): maintainer of the [[Mixmaster anonymous remailer|Mixmaster Remailer]] software; researcher at [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven]]; [[biopunk]]
* Steven Schear: creator of the [[warrant canary]]; [[street performer protocol]]; founding member of the International Financial Cryptographer's Association<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifca.ai/|title=IFCA|website=Ifca.ai|access-date=2013-11-20|archive-date=2021-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320081216/http://ifca.ai/|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[GNURadio]]; team member at [[BT Counterpane|Counterpane]]; former Director at data security company Cylink and [[MojoNation]]
* [[Bruce Schneier]]*: well-known security author; founder of [[BT Counterpane|Counterpane]]
* [[Richard Stallman]]: founder of [[Free Software Foundation]], privacy advocate
* [[Nick Szabo]]: inventor of [[smart contracts]]; designer of [[bit gold]], a precursor to [[Bitcoin]]
* [[Wei Dai]]: Created [[b-money]]; cryptocurrency system and co-proposed the&nbsp;VMAC&nbsp;message authentication algorithm. The smallest subunit of&nbsp;Ether, the&nbsp;wei, is named after him.
* [[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]]: [[DigiCash]] and [[MojoNation]] developer; founder of [[Zcash]]; co-designer of [[Tahoe-LAFS]]
* [[Jillian C. York]]: Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jillian-york|title=Jillian York|work=Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=2011-10-07|access-date=2014-09-23|archive-date=2021-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411155114/https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jillian-york|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Young (Cryptome)|John Young]]: anti-secrecy activist and co-founder of [[Cryptome]]
* [[Philip Zimmermann]]: original creator of PGP v1.0 (1991); co-founder of PGP Inc. (1996); co-founder with Jon Callas of [[Silent Circle (software)|Silent Circle]]
* [[Edward Snowden]]: NSA whistleblower (2013); President of the [[Freedom of the Press Foundation]]

<nowiki>*</nowiki> indicates someone mentioned in the acknowledgements of Stephenson's ''Cryptonomicon.''