Pioneers of Modern Cryptography
- Clifford Cocks - British Intelligence Cryptographer, Invented Public Key Cryptography but his work was kept classified until 1997, By definition not a cypherpunk (since he worked in secrecy for intelligence agencies) - but deserving of credit as the field's true founder
- David Chaum - Cryptographer and ideological forefather of the Cypherpunk movement
- Martin Hellman - Cryptographer, Co-creater of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with Whitfield Diffie
- Ralph C. Merkle - Cryptographer, One of the inventors of Public Key Cryptography, Inventor of the cryptographic hash
- Whitfield Diffie - Cryptographer, Co-creater of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with Martin Hellman, Privacy advocate
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