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The cypherpunks (from cipher and punk) comprise an informal group of people interested in privacy and cryptography who originally communicated through the cypherpunks mailing list. The aim of the group was to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography. Events such as the GURPS Cyberpunk raid lent weight to the idea that private individuals needed to take steps themselves to protect their privacy. In its heyday, the list discussed the public policy issues related to cryptography, as well as more practical nuts-and-bolts mathematical, computational, technological, and cryptographic matters themselves. This article is about algorithms for encryption and decryption. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Beginning in the late 1970s and continuing to the present, there has evolved a distinctive and largely cohesive system of thought associated with the punk subculture (often simply referred to as punk). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to stop information about themselves from becoming known to people other than those they choose to give the information to. ...
Cryptography has had a long and colourful history. ...
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. ...
Written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games in 1995, GURPS Cyberpunk is a sourcebook for a cyberpunk-themed role-playing game based in a fictional, near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer. ...
A coderpunks list, open by invitation only, existed for a time. Coderpunks took up more technical matters and had less discussion of public policy implications.
The term cypherpunk was coined by Jude Milhon as a pun to describe cyberpunks who used cryptography. Jude Milhon (1939 - 19 July 2003) was a hacker and author in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Berlins Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz reflects the global reach of a Japanese corporation. ...
The mailing list's best days have been behind it for some time, possibly peaking around 1997. A number of current systems in use trace their roots to this time, including Pretty Good Privacy, /dev/random in the linux kernel (the actual code has been completely reimplemented several times since then) and today's anonymous remailers. Jump to: navigation, search Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. ...
In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/random is a virtual device that serves as a hardware random number generator which gathers environmental noise from device drivers and other sources into an entropy pool. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Linux mascot Tux created by Larry Ewing The Linux kernel is a free Unix-like operating system kernel that was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and subsequently improved with the assistance of developers around the world. ...
An anonymous remailer is a server computer which receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and which forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. ...
Cypherpunk, cypherpunks or cpunks are also occasionally used as a username and password on websites which require registration, especially if the user does not intend to return or does not wish to reveal information about themself. The account is left for later users.
The Cypherpunks included several notable computer industry figures, including John Gilmore, Eric Hughes, Hugh Daniel, and Tim May. John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. ...
Hugh Daniel is a computer engineer. ...
Tim May was an engineer and chief scientist at Intel at an early and crucial point in that companys history. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search An anonymous P2P computer network is a particular type of peer-to-peer network in which the users and their nodes are pseudonymous by default. ...
A cypherpunk anonymous remailer is an anonymous remailer that takes messages encrypted with PGP or GPG, or in some cases in plain text, and forwards it removing any identity information from the header. ...
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age (ISBN 0140244328) is a book written by Steven Levy about cryptography, and was published in 2001. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Crypto-anarchism is a philosophy that expounds the use of strong public key cryptography to enforce privacy and therefore individual freedom. ...
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