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Activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography
A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political
Cypherpunk
Cryptograph and cypherpunk (1956–2014)
During the early 1990s, in addition to being a regular poster on the cypherpunks listserv, Finney ran two anonymous remailers. Further cryptographic activism
Hal Finney (computer scientist)
Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)
American mathematician, programmer, and cypherpunk founder
American mathematician, computer programmer, and cypherpunk. He is considered one of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, alongside Timothy C. May and John
Eric_Hughes_(cypherpunk)
2012 book by Julian Assange
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet is a 2012 book by Julian Assange, in discussion with Internet activists and cypherpunks Jacob Appelbaum
Cypherpunks_(book)
British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970)
Adam Back (born July 1970) is a British cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is the CEO of Blockstream, which he co-founded in 2014. He invented Hashcash,
Adam_Back
Analogy related to cybercrime
activities. One of the most famous definitions is in The Cyphernomicon by the cypherpunk writer and engineer Tim May, which states: 8.3.4. "How will privacy and
Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse
Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse
Cryptographer (born 1973)
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David
Ian_Goldberg
Type of anonymous remailer
A Cypherpunk anonymous remailer, also known as a Type I remailer, is a type of anonymous remailer that receives messages encrypted with PGP or GPG, follows
Cypherpunk_anonymous_remailer
Electronic money corporation founded by David Chaum in 1990
created the term "smart contracts." Hal Finney discussed eCash on the cypherpunk mailing list during the DigiCash years, and in 2009, he received the first
DigiCash
Phrase
human construct (information) has been adopted within a branch of the cypherpunk movement, whose members espouse a particular political viewpoint of anarchism
Information_wants_to_be_free
Political ideology
freedom to trade. In 1992, he read the text at the founding meeting of the cypherpunk movement. The prefix "crypto-" originates from the Ancient Greek word
Crypto-anarchy
Cypherpunk (born 1974)
American Colorado-based computer security specialist, self-proclaimed cypherpunk, and ex-CEO of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), a for-profit company leading
Zooko_Wilcox-O'Hearn
American hacker, writer, editor, advocate (1939 - 2003)
San Francisco Bay Area. Milhon coined the term cypherpunk and was a founding member of the cypherpunks. On July 19, 2003, Milhon died of cancer. Judith
Jude_Milhon
Computer server that forwards messages with varying degrees of privacy
that forwards them while attempting to obscure their origin. There are cypherpunk remailers, mixmaster remailers, and nym servers, among others, which differ
Anonymous_remailer
Philosophical movement
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Transhumanism
Stance favoring continuous technological evolution and longer lifespans
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Extropianism
Australian WikiLeaks editor (born 1971)
2012 book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, Assange wrote that his fundamental principle was "the traditional cypherpunk juxtaposition
Julian_Assange
Decentralized digital cryptocurrency
proposals for distributed digital scarcity-based cryptocurrencies came from cypherpunks Wei Dai (b-money) and Nick Szabo (bit gold) in 1998. In 2004, Hal Finney
Bitcoin
Transhumanist and futurist (1930–2000)
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FM-2030
Network service attack performed by multiple fake identities
term pseudospoofing had previously been coined by L. Detweiler on the Cypherpunks mailing list and used in the literature on peer-to-peer systems for the
Sybil_attack
Subgenres of the science fiction genre
Stephenson Bruce Sterling Subcultures Japanese cyberpunk Cyberdelic Cybergoth Cypherpunk Electrohippies Themes Philosophy Transhumanism Cognitive liberty Morphological
Cyberpunk_derivatives
Type of market that incentivizes assassination
and negative lights) in 1994's "The Cyphernomicon" by Timothy C. May, a cypherpunk. The concept and its potential effects are also referred to as assassination
Assassination_market
List of academic journals related to cryptography
List of cryptographers List of mathematics journals List of open-source Cypherpunk software International Association for Cryptologic Research Journal of
List_of_cryptography_journals
Internet puzzle and mystery
portal 11B-X-1371 Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a poem used in the puzzle Cypherpunk Mass collaboration Secret society Mabinogion, another poem used in the
Cicada_3301
Software
current maintainer. Current Mixmaster software can be compiled to handle Cypherpunk messages as well; they are needed as reply blocks for nym servers. Support
Mixmaster_anonymous_remailer
Science fiction genre that focuses on technological use of life studies
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Biopunk
Techno-political ideology rejecting all forms of government regulation
cyberlibertarianism, was a political ideology with roots in the Internet's early hacker cypherpunk culture in Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and in American libertarianism
Technolibertarianism
Belief in an incipient technological singularity
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Singularitarianism
Algorithm for encrypting and decrypting information
Retrieved 2024-06-30. "Types of Ciphers: Early Alphabet Codes to Music & Cypherpunk". 26 February 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-14. King, David A. (2001). The Ciphers
Cipher
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency
integrated circuit (ASIC) mining. Monero's privacy features have attracted cypherpunks and users desiring privacy measures not provided in other cryptocurrencies
Monero
Routing protocol
still limited, and mixnets stayed largely within experimental stages. A "cypherpunk remailer" software was developed to make it easier for individuals to
Mix_network
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List_of_cyberpunk_works
Ideological position in futurism
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Cornucopianism
Unrecognised micronation in the North Sea
November 2015. Grimmelmann, James (27 March 2012). "Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation". Ars Technica. Archived
Principality_of_Sealand
Cryptocurrency aimed at privacy
Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss invested $50 million to launch Cypherpunk Technologies, a digital-asset treasury company focused on the cryptocurrency
Zcash
Software company in Canada
Systems was one of the first large-scale commercial attempts to combine cypherpunk principles with a for-profit technology. During its heyday, ZKS captured
Zero_Knowledge_Systems
Spanish-Irish cyborg rights advocate
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Neil_Harbisson
Philosopher and writer (born 1973)
(2023) The Singularity Is Nearer (2024) Variants Accelerationism Effective Cypherpunk Dataism Extropianism Immortalism Longtermism Postgenderism Posthumanism
Nick_Bostrom
British author, comedian and voice over artist
Proposed Name Change to Cypherpunk Holdings Inc". Newsfile. Retrieved 16 April 2025. MarketScreener (4 November 2019). "Cypherpunk Holdings Inc. Announces
Dominic_Frisby
American technologist and cryptographer (1980–2011)
moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, quickly became a regular in the cypherpunk community, and moved in with Bram Cohen. Sassaman was employed as the
Len_Sassaman
1998 video game
Sasada) is a lively, black-haired fighter for the secret organization Cypherpunk which opposes the Prodevon Church. He appears early in the game and is
Black/Matrix
English biogerontologist and author (born 1963)
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Aubrey_de_Grey
2012 book by Andy Greenberg
Kills Secrets is a 2012 book by Andy Greenberg about "how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks, and hacktivists aim to free the world's information." The book looks
This_Machine_Kills_Secrets
Book by Steven Levy
signatures and the struggle between the National Security Agency and cypherpunks. The book details the creation of Data Encryption Standard (DES), RSA
Crypto_(book)
Subgenre of science fiction
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Steampunk
American activist and whistleblower (born 1987)
Assange United States v. Manning list of charges Related topics Anonymous Cypherpunks HBGary Operation Payback Reception of WikiLeaks Risk We Steal Secrets:
Chelsea_Manning
Topics referred to by the same term
Cybergoth, a fashion and music subculture Cyberpunx, a comic book series Cypherpunk, a type of social activist This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Cyberpunk_(disambiguation)
2017 film
Programme - Fluidø". Retrieved 7 February 2017. "Shu Lea Cheang: FLUIDØ Cypherpunk Film". Seditionart. 3 February 2017. Archived from the original on 4 February
Fluidø
American computer scientist and AI researcher
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Ben_Goertzel
Series of free software licenses
Stewart, Bill (8 October 1998). "Re: propose: 'cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code)". Cypherpunks mailing list. Archived from the original
GNU_General_Public_License
Social movement devoted to eliminating or reversing aging, or reducing its effects
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Anti-aging_movement
News leak publishing organisation
Greenberg, Andy (2013). This machine kills secrets: Julian Assange, the cypherpunks, and their fight to empower whistleblowers. New York, [New York]: Plume
WikiLeaks
American activist (born 1955)
He is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in
John_Gilmore_(activist)
View and reception of Julian Assange
that Assange’s cypherpunk ethics need to be considered when assessing the work of WikiLeaks. Anderson wrote that "By combining cypherpunk ethics with antiwar
Commentary about Julian Assange
Commentary_about_Julian_Assange
Machine for applying ink under pressure
ISBN 978-3-598-11772-5. (figure at pp. 207–208). Assange, Julian (2012). Cypherpunks : freedom and the future of the internet. Internet Archive. [India] :
Printing_press
Indian software engineer (born 1977)
open-source anti-spam software, Vipul's Razor. Prakash considers himself a cypherpunk. He created a dolphin-shaped implementation of the RSA algorithm in Perl
Vipul_Ved_Prakash
Content-addressable, peer-to-peer hypermedia distribution protocol
Retrieved 2025-12-10. Balcell, Marta Poblet (2017-10-05). "Inside Catalonia's cypherpunk referendum". Eureka Street. Vol. 27, no. 20. ISSN 1833-7724. Archived
InterPlanetary_File_System
American writer, engineer and scientist (1951–2018)
Cypherpunks electronic mailing list. He wrote extensively on cryptography and privacy from the 1990s through 2003. May wrote a substantial cypherpunk-themed
Timothy_C._May
Method of indirect notification of a subpoena
and served secret warrants was first proposed by Steven Schear on the cypherpunks mailing list, mainly to uncover targeted individuals at ISPs. It was
Warrant_canary
American programmer and author of the BitTorrent protocol
Bram Cohen (born October 12, 1975) is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in 2001,
Bram_Cohen
Cryptographic protocol
ago (2016-03-09) Written in C Operating system Cross-platform Type Software Library License LGPL v2.1+ Website otr.cypherpunks.ca/index.php#downloads
Off-the-Record Messaging protocol
Off-the-Record_Messaging_protocol
Stephenson Bruce Sterling Subcultures Japanese cyberpunk Cyberdelic Cybergoth Cypherpunk Electrohippies Themes Philosophy Transhumanism Cognitive liberty Morphological
List_of_biopunk_works
Internet software to protect user identities
with instructions (called a reply block) to anonymous remailers (such as Cypherpunk or Mixmaster) on how to send a message to one's real address. The nym
Pseudonymous_remailer
American businessman (born 1969)
Sean Hastings (born 1969) is an American entrepreneur, cypherpunk author, and security expert. In 1997, Hastings worked on cryptographic protocols and
Sean_Hastings
American computer scientist
Nicholas Szabo is an American computer scientist, legal scholar, and cryptographer known for his research in smart contracts and digital currency. Szabo
Nick_Szabo
French web hosting and cloud computing company
2012). This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information. New York (New York), USA: Random
OVHcloud
California) was a noted computer engineer. He was an early participant in the Cypherpunk movement. He contributed significantly to the Internet Engineering Task
Hugh_Daniel
Type of organization run via blockchain
Steals Everything - VICE". Vice.com. 2022-02-15. Retrieved 2022-02-16. "'Cypherpunks have rallied to Assange': NFT auction raises $52m for WikiLeaks founder"
Decentralized autonomous organization
Decentralized_autonomous_organization
Suppression of speech and information
Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jacob Appelbaum and Jérémie Zimmermann, in the book Cypherpunks.[citation needed] Amid declining car sales in 2020, France banned a television
Censorship
Computer security term; someone who hacks computer systems
St. Jude) was an American hacker and activist, founding member of the cypherpunk movement, and one of the creators of Community Memory, the first public
Security_hacker
Canadian software developer
born in Canada. When he was 15 years old he began communicating with cypherpunks like Adam Back and Hal Finney. Before his career as a core developer
Peter_Todd_(programmer)
Social movement concerning creative works
redirect targets Culture vs. Copyright – 2014 book by Anatoly G. Volynets Cypherpunk – Activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography Free content –
Free-culture_movement
2024 documentary
to its original principles, charting the currency’s evolution from its cypherpunk roots to incorporation into 401(k)s, becoming an integral part of the
Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery
Money_Electric:_The_Bitcoin_Mystery
Practice and study of secure communication techniques
cryptography books List of cryptography software List of open-source Cypherpunk software List of unsolved problems in computer science – List of unsolved
Cryptography
American businessman (born 1979)
various MIT presentations), participating on mailing lists such as "cypherpunks" and "dbs"[clarification needed], and, with Ian Goldberg, eventually
Ryan_Lackey
Common moral values of hacker culture
Intelligence Lab and Stanford AI Laboratory Jude Milhon: Founder of the cypherpunk movement, senior editor at Mondo 2000, and co-founder of Community Memory
Hacker_ethic
Former CIA employee and criminal (born 1988)
Assange United States v. Manning list of charges Related topics Anonymous Cypherpunks HBGary Operation Payback Reception of WikiLeaks Risk We Steal Secrets:
Joshua_Schulte
Encryption where existence of a plaintext is difficult to proof
initially released in 1997. The name Rubberhose is a joking reference to the cypherpunks term rubber-hose cryptanalysis, in which encryption keys are obtained
Deniable_encryption
Cryptography software developer
the computer club for his own business. In 1997, Cate collaborated with cypherpunk Robert Hettinga and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Rafael
Vince_Cate
Organization
some members referring to themselves as biopunks in reference to the cypherpunks of the turn of the century. The work 'A Biopunk Manifesto' delivered
DIYbio_(organization)
American computer scientist
2022, in eulogies and commemorations published online, he was called “a cypherpunk, one of a few that remained active in the crypto community.... noble in
Nikolai_Mushegian
account-password data. Cryptographic hash function Disk encryption theory List of cypherpunk software List of cryptographers List of hash functions Outline of cryptography
List of cryptographic software
List_of_cryptographic_software
American entrepreneur
Moxie Marlinspike is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the
Moxie_Marlinspike
Privacy-focused encrypted messaging app
Retrieved 18 May 2023. Greenberg, Andy (11 October 2016). "Signal, the Cypherpunk App of Choice, Adds Disappearing Messages". Wired. Archived from the original
Signal_(software)
Pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin
could be Nakamoto. Len Sassaman – In 2021, developer Evan Hatch proposed cypherpunk Len Sassaman (1980–2011) of COSIC as a possible candidate. Sassaman had
Satoshi_Nakamoto
Free and open-source anonymity network
was introduced by David Chaum in 1979 and later published in 1981. The cypherpunk movement contributed to the development of mixnets in the 1990s, though
Nym_(mixnet)
French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955)
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Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin
"Issue 1418 requesting OTR support". "Issue 651 requesting OTR support". "Cypherpunks - OTR-Enabled Software". Retrieved 2014-03-16. "GitHub - weechat-otr
Comparison_of_IRC_clients
Art of Exploitation Joseph Menn – Fatal System Error Julian Assange – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet Kevin Mitnick – Ghost in the
List_of_computer_books
American technology journalist
for Feature articles. This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the cypherpunks, and their fight to empower whistleblowers. London: Penguin Group, 2012
Andy_Greenberg
Computer-based activities as a means of protest
documentary film milw0rm 2600: The Hacker Quarterly Citizen Lab HackThisSite Cypherpunk Jeremy Hammond Mr. Robot – a television series Hacktivism in Italy Urban
Hacktivism
Encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn
was already solved. Lindsly, Corey (June 16, 1999). "fx-discuss: FC: Cypherpunk breaks CIA's crypto code in 1990 statue (fwd)". elonka.com. Archived from
Kryptos
American technology journalist
about the culture surrounding technology, including Silicon Valley, cypherpunks, bionomics, and technolibertarianism. Her first short story, "Virtual
Paulina_Borsook
This is a list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software
List of free and open-source software packages
List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages
World's first auction of computer algorithms
art-world facing computer virus named after Nigella Lawson and created by cypherpunk and hacktivist Richard Jones. Sebastian Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging
The_Algorithm_Auction
Lithuanian businessman, poker player, politician, and philanthropist
vice-president of the Lithuanian Rowing Federation. Guoga is director and CEO of Cypherpunk Holdings. In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International
Antanas_Guoga
Experimental web platform
YouHaveDownloaded was an experimental web-based platform launched in December 2011 that allowed users to enter an IP address and view a list of torrent
YouHaveDownloaded
American cryptographer, creator of PGP (born 1954)
Philip R. Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP),
Phil_Zimmermann
Increase in the rate of technological change through history
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Accelerating_change
Stance of active support for the convergence of technological and social change
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Techno-progressivism
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