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Noteworthy Cypherpunks

Cypherpunks list participants included many notable computer industry figures. Most were list regulars, although not all would call themselves "cypherpunks".

  • Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder, deniable cryptography inventor, journalist, co-author of Underground, member of the International Subversives.
  • Adam Back: inventor of Hashcash and of NNTP-based Eternity networks.
  • Jim Bell: author of the Assassination Politics paper.
  • 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.
  • 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 Silent Circle.
  • Bram Cohen: creator of BitTorrent.
  • Lance Cottrell: the original author of the Mixmaster Remailer software, and founder of Anonymizer Inc.
  • Matt Curtin: founder of Interhack Corporation, first faculty advisor of The Ohio State University Open Source Club, and lecturer at The Ohio State University.
  • Hugh Daniel: former Sun Microsystems employee, manager of the FreeS/WAN project (an early and important freeware IPsec implementation).
  • Dave Del Torto: PGPv3 volunteer, founding PGP Inc employee, longtime Cypherpunks physical meeting organizer, co-author of RFC3156 (PGP/MIME) standard, co-founder of IETF OpenPGP Working Group and the CryptoRights Foundation human rights non-profit, HighFire project principal architect.
  • Tyler Durden (pseudonym): a fibre optic engineer at Bell Communications Research, who later worked in the financial industry.
  • Hal Finney: cryptographer, main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP; designer of RPOW
  • Randy French (pseudonym of Sandy Sandfort): producer of the first Cypherpunk genre pornographic film, Cryptic Seduction.
  • John Gilmore*: Sun Microsystems' fifth employee, co-founder of the Cypherpunks as well as 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, designer of the Off-the-record messaging protocol.
  • Rop Gonggrijp: founder of XS4ALL, co-creator of the Cryptophone.
  • Peter Gutmann: researcher at University of Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Sean Hastings: founding CEO of Havenco and co-author of the book God Wants You Dead.
  • Marc Horowitz: author of the first PGP key server.
  • Tim Hudson: co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL.
  • Eric Hughes: founding member of Cypherpunks, author of A Cypherpunk's Manifesto.
  • Peter Junger (deceased): Law professor at Case Western Reserve University.
  • Phil Karn: Bell Labs researcher, later at Qualcomm.
  • Paul Kocher: president of 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.
  • Werner Koch: author of GNU Privacy Guard.
  • Isak Johnsson: Creator of the stealth technology used in Stuxnet, virus author, programmer.
  • Ben Laurie: founder of The Bunker, core OpenSSL team member, Google engineer.
  • Moxie Marlinspike: co-founder of Whisper Systems, author of the Convergence SSL authenticity system.
  • Timothy C. May: former Assistant Chief Scientist at Intel, author of A Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and the Cyphernomicon, and a Founding member of the Cypherpunks Mailing List.
  • Jim McCoy: creator of MojoNation.
  • Declan McCullagh: journalist specializing in security and privacy issues.
  • Jude Milhon (deceased; a.k.a. "St. Jude"): a Founding Member of the Cypherpunks mailing list, credited with naming the group; co-creator of Mondo 2000 magazine.
  • 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.
  • Len Sassaman (deceased): maintainer of the Mixmaster Remailer software, researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and a biopunk.
  • Bruce Schneier*: well-known security author, founder of Counterpane.
  • Bill Stewart: organizer of Cypherpunks physical meetings, researcher at AT&T Labs.
  • Jacob Appelbaum: Tor developer, political advocate.
  • John Young: started the Cryptome web site.
  • Peter Wayner: author of book Translucent Databases.
  • Barry Wels: discoverer of lock bumping, co-creator of the Cryptophone.
  • Deborah Natsios: Cofounder of Cryptome, Creator of Cartome.
  • Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: DigiCash and MojoNation developer, co-designer of Tahoe-LAFS.
  • Eric A. Young: co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL. Invented 256 bit SSL proof of concept.
  • Philip Zimmermann: original creator of PGP v1.0 (1991), co-founder of PGP Inc (1996), co-founder with Jon Callas Silent Circle.

* indicates someone mentioned in the acknowledgements of Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

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