David Chaum
While not a Cypherpunk himself, Chaum’s research papers were essentially the founding documents of the Cypherpunk movement.
From wikipedia:
David Lee Chaum (born 1955) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is famous for developing ecash, an electronic cash application that aims to preserve a user’s anonymity. He has also invented many cryptographic protocols and founded DigiCash, an electronic money corporation. His 1981 paper, “Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms”, laid the groundwork for the field of anonymous communications research
Links
TODO: Go through list of publications on Chaum’s site and link the available ones
- David Chaum on Wikipedia
- List of Publications on Chaum’s Personal Website
- 1981-Present - List of Research Papers by David Chaum - Unfortunately most, if not all, require payment to access. Googling the title + “pdf” may yield a link but it’s not guaranteed
- 1981 Research Paper - Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms by David Chaum
- 1982 Research Paper - Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments by David Chaum
- Oct 1985 Research Paper (Communications of the ACM) - Security Without Idenfitication: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete by David Chaum
- 1988 Research Paper - The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability by David Chaum
- 1989 Research Paper - Online Cash Checks by David Chaum
- 1992 Scientific American - Achieving Electronic Privacy by David Chaum
- 01-Dec-1994 Wired Magazine - E-Money (That’s What I Want)
- 06-Jan-2016 Wired Magazine - The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War by Andy Greenberg
- 07-Jan-2016 Business Insider - There’s a huge debate over an encryption expert’s plan solve the problem of online privacy by Rob Price
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