A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993) – Eric Hughes
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988) Timothy C. May
The Cryptonomicon (1999) – Neal Stephenson
Cyber-Libertarianism: The Case For Real Internet Freedom (2009) – Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka
The Bitcoin Whitepaper (2008) – Satoshi Nakamoto
Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities (1994) – Timothy C. May
Cryptography and Liberty, An International Survey of Encryption Policy (2000)– Electronic Privacy Information Center
Cypherpunks, Freedom and the Future of the Internet (2006) – Julian Assange
Cyberspace, Cryptoanarchy and Pushing Limits (1994) – Timothy C. May
New Directions in Cryptography – Whitfield Diffie and Martin E.Helman
Security Without Identification (1985) – David Chaum
The New Libertarian Manifesto – Samuel Edward Konkin III
For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto – Murray N. Rothbard
Traveling the Silk Road: A Measurement Analysis – Nicolas Cristin
Big Brother NSA and its “Little Brothers” – Terry L. Cook
This Machine Kills Secrets (2013) – Andy Greenberg
An Unofficial User’s Guide to Tor – Gavin Phillips
The CryptoParty handbook (2003)
Big Brother 2010: The NSA’s Global Surveillance Network – Terry L. Cook
The Cypherpunk Mailing List – Subscribe to the Cypherpunk Mailing List
Cypherpunks Legacy Archives – Archives of the original Cypherpunk Mailing List 1993-2013
The Cryptography Digest – Subscribe to the mailing list at cryptography@metzdowd.com
BItcoin Talk Forum – Bitcoin community forum
Hackernoon – Cypher Tech community forum
Nakamoto Institute – Repository of Satoshi Nakamoto’s code, writings and resources
Github – Open-source development platform
Tor Project – Free privacy browser
Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) – Enabling Smarter Privacy Tools for the Web
The Darknet Links – Directory of onion sites
Agorist Market – An on-line, counter-economy marketplace
Agorist Nexus – An on-line, counter-economy marketplace
Cryptome – Documents prohibited by governments on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology
Cryptoparty – global meetups on the subject of encrypted communication
Take Back Our Tech – Open-source tech guidance
Internet Defense League – Defending internet privacy and freedom
Adam Back
Inventor of Hashcash and of NNTP-based Eternity networks.
Bram Cohen
Creator of BitTorrent. and lecturer at The Ohio State University.
Bruce Schneier
Author on security issues.
Craig S. Wright
Inventor of the original Nakamoto BSV Protocol.
Dave Del Torto
PGPv3 volunteer, founding PGP Inc. employee, Cypherpunks meeting organizer, co-author of RFC3156 (PGP/MIME) standard,
co-founder of IETF OpenPGP Working Group and the CryptoRights Foundation human rights non-profit, HighFire project principal architect.
David Chaum
Pioneer of cyber cryptography, inventor of digital money E-cash.
Derek Atkins
Computer scientist, computer security expert, and one of the people who factored RSA-129.
Eric Blossom
Designer of the Starium cryptographically secured mobile phone, founder of the GNU Radio project.
Eric Hughes
Author of The Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
Eva Galperin
Malware researcher and security advocate, Electronic Frontier Foundation activist.
Hal Finney (deceased)
Cryptographer, main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP; designer of RPOW.
Hugh Daniel (deceased)
former Sun Microsystems employee, manager of the FreeS/WAN project (an early and important freeware IPsec implementation).
Ian Goldberg
Professor at University of Waterloo, designer of the Off-the-record messaging protocol.
Jacob Appelbaum
Tor developer, is at the Mailing List Archives
Jillian C. York
Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Johan Helsingius
Creator and operator of Penet remailer.
John Gilmore
Sun Microsystems’ fifth employee, co-founder of the Cypherpunks as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
project leader for FreeS/WAN.
John Young
Anti-secrecy activist and cofounder of Cryptome.
Jon Callas
Technical lead on OpenPGP specification, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of PGP Corporation, co-founder with Philip Zimmermann of Silent Circle.
Julian Assange
Founder of whistleblower site WikiLeaks. Currently held in jail for exposing the crimes of global imperialism.
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Julian Oliver
Artist, privacy advocate, critical engineer. Co-founder of Critical Engineering.
Len Sassaman (deceased)
Maintainer of the Mixmaster Remailer software, researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and a biopunk.
Marc Horowitz
Author of the first PGP key server.
Martin Hellman
Cryptographer and mathematician. One of the pioneers of public key cryptography.
Michael Froomkin
Distinguished Professor of Law University of Miami School of Law.
Mike Godwin
Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer, electronic rights advocate.
Moxie Marlinspike
Creator of Signal App, an co-author of Signal Protocol Encryption.
Nadia Heninger
Assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania, security researcher.
Nick Szabo
Computer scientist, inventor of smart contracts and Bit Gold, laying the foundations for Bitcoin.
Paul Kocher
President of Cryptography Research, Inc., co-author of the SSL 3.0 protocol.,
Principal Cryptographic Engineer for PGP Corporation, Co Founder of Silent Circle., Co Founder 4th-A Technologies, LLC.
Peter Junger (deceased)
Law professor at Case Western Reserve University.
Dr Pieter Wuille
Author of BIP32 hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets.
Philip Zimmermann:
Original creator of PGP v1.0 (1991), co-founder of PGP Inc. (1996), co-founder with Jon Callas of Silent Circle.
Ralf Merkle
Cryptographer and mathematician. One of the pioneers of public key cryptography. Inventor of cryptographic hashing.
Robert Hettinga
Founder of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and originator of the idea of Financial cryptography as an applied subset of cryptography.
Rop Gonggrijp
Founder of XS4ALL, co-creator of the Cryptophone.
Ross Ulbricht
Runa Sandvik
Tor developer, political advocate.
Sameer Parekh
Former CEO of C2Net and co-founder of the CryptoRights Foundation human rights non-profit.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Anonymous creator of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, and inventor of the blockchain technology.
Sean Hastings
Founding CEO of Havenco and co-author of the book God Wants You Dead.
Steven Schear
Creator of the warrant canary, and GNURadio, team member Counterpane, former Director at data security company Cylink and MojoNation,
current Vice President at StashCrypto.
Suelette Dreyfus
Co-author of Rubberhose, a deniable encryption archive.
Tim Hudson
Co-author of SSLeay, the precursor to OpenSSL. Creator of the stealth technology used in Stuxnet, virus author, programmer.
Timothy C. May (deceased)
Author of The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1992) and The Cyphernomicon (1994).
Wei Dai
Developer of the Crypto++ cryptographic library, created the b-money cryptocurrency system,
and co-proposed the VMAC message authentication algorithm.
Werner Koch
Author of GNU Privacy Guard.
Whitfield Diffie
Cryptographer and mathematician. One of the pioneers of public key cryptography.