Many of these I collated via nakamotoinstitute.org.

• List of Important Publications in Cryptography on Wikipedia
• Jul 1948 The Bell System Technical Journal - A Mathematical Theory of Communication By Claude Shannon
• Oct 1949 The Bell System Technical Journal - Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems by Claude Shannon
• 1957 Internet Archive - An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. I.pdf) by William Feller
• Nov 1976 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, VOL. IT-22, NO. 6 - New Directions in Cryptography by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman - this paper describes Diffie-Hellman key exchange
• Feb 1978 people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ - A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-key Cryptosystems by Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard M. Adleman
• Apr 1978 merkle.com - Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems by Ralph C. Merkle
• Apr 1978 merkle.com - Secure Communications over Insecure Channels by Ralph C. Merkle
• 04-Jun-1979 merkle.com - Secrecy, Authentication, And Public Key Systems by Ralph C. Merkle - this is his PhD thesis, where he proposed the cryptographic hash function
• 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
• Jul 1982 lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs - The Byzantine Generals Problem by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, and Marshall Pease
• Aug 1984 Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8 - Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson (co-creator of Unix)
• 1988 Research Paper - The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability by David Chaum
• 1998-2000 iang.org - Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers by Ian Grigg
• 1989 Research Paper - Online Cash Checks by David Chaum
• Dec 1990 NakamotoInstitute.org - Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using the State Machine Approach: A Tutorial by Fred B. Schneider
• 1991 anf.es - How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta
• Jul 1991 people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/ - Proofs that Yield Nothing But Their Validity or All Languages in NP Have Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems by Oded Goldreich, Silvio Micali, and Avi Wigderson
• 1992 Scientific American - Achieving Electronic Privacy by David Chaum
• Mar 1999 math.columbia.edu - Improving the Efficiency and Reliability of Digital Time-Stamping by Stuart Haber, W. Scott Stornetta, and Dave Bayer
• 22-Nov-1992 Cypherpunk Mailing List - Crypto Glossary by Eric Hughes and Timothy C. May
• 1993 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Multinational Small Business by Nick Szabo
• 19-Aug-1993 Cypherpunk Mailing List (I think) - Digital Cash & Privacy by Hal Finney
• 15-Oct-1993 (Rev. 13-Mar-1996) www.finney.org/~hal/ (Web Archive) - Detecting Double Spending by Hal Finney
• 30-Mar-1994 Cypherpunk Mailing List (I think) - PGP Web of Trust Misconceptions by Hal Finney
• 1996 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Negative Reputation by Nick Szabo
• 1997 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks by Nick Szabo
• Apr 1997 NakamotoInstitute.org - Secure Names for Bit-Strings by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta
• 1998/1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority by Nick Szabo
• Apr 1998-Dec 1999 NakamotoInstitute.org - The Geodesic Market by Robert Hettinga - pdf link
• May 1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
• 1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Intrapolynomial Cryptography by Nick Szabo
• 1999 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Contracts with Bearer by Nick Szabo
• 1999 www.theiia.org (Web Archive) - The God Protocols by Nick Szabo
• May 1999 Proceedings of IEEE - Design of a Secure Timestamping Service with Minimal Trust Requirements by Henri Massias, Xavier Serret-Avila, and Jean-Jacques Quisquater
• 2000 erights.org - Capability-based Financial Instruments by Mark S. Miller, Chip Morningstar, and Bill Frantz - HTML version
• 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes by Nick Szabo
• 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - A Formal Language for Analyzing Contracts by Nick Szabo
• 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Shelling Out: The Origins of Money by Nick Szabo
• 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - The Playdough Protocols by Nick Szabo
• 2002 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Measuring Value by Nick Szabo
• 2002 pages.upf.pf/Alban.Gabillon/ - Improving Time Stamping Schemes: A Distributed Point of View by Alexis Bonnecaze, Pierre Liardet, Alban Gabillon, and Kaouther Blibech
• 2002 microsoft.com/en-us/research/ - The Sybil Attack by John R. Douceur
• 01-Aug-2002 - Hashcash - Denial of Service Counter-Measure by Adam Back
• 2003 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Advances in Distributed Security by Nick Szabo
• 2004 szabo.best.vwh.net (Web Archive) - Scarce Objects by Nick Szabo
• 06-Jul-2004 iang.org - The Ricardian Contract by Ian Grigg
• 18-May-2004 svn.torproject.org - Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router by Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson
• 15-Aug-2004 Cypherpunk Mailing List - RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work by Hal Finney - link to archive of RPOW website, link to archive of RPOW codebase
• 2005 epointsystem.org/~nagydani/ - On Digital Cash-Like Payment Systems by Daniel A. Nagy
• Dec 2005 Unenumerated (Nick Szabo’s Blog) - Bit gold
• 25-Dec-2005 iang.org - Triple Entry Accounting by Ian Grigg
• 2008 NakamotoInstitute.org - Truledger in Plain English by Bill St. Clair - link to original
• 30-Oct-2008 NakamotoInstitute.org - Lucre: Anonymous Electronic Tokens v1.8 by Ben Laurie
• 31-Oct-2008 Cryptography Mailing List - The Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto - link to original announcement
• 24-Jul-2014 IPFS.io - IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System (DRAFT 3) by Juan Benet
• Dec 2014 O’Reilly Books - Mastering Bitcoin (free to read on GitHub) by Andreas Antonopoulos
• 05-Sep-2015 Garret Fogerlie - How Tor Users Got Caught - Defcon 22
• 07-Dec-2015 bitcoin-dev Mailing List - Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system - (Core’s Roadmap)
• 87-Apr-2016 Università di Trento - Distributed Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
• 28-Oct-2016 Bitcoincore.org - Segregated Witness Costs and Risks
• 13-Apr-2017 The Merkle - What is a BIP
• 10-Jul-2017 HackerNoon.com - Ethereum: Turing-Completeness and Rich Statefulness Explained by Kyle Wang
• 14-Aug-2017 Filecoin.io - Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network by Protocol Labs

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